...daughters, recognising the danger : "O Regan, Goneril ! Your old, kind father, whose frank heart gave all — O ! that way madness lies ; let me shun that ; No more of that." When Kent again insisted on his entering the hut, he spoke to him kindly but firmly, repeating with...

...such a night / To shut me out?" and again he turns from the extremity of his psychic pain in terror: "O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; / No more of that" (in, iv, 1-22). He urges Kent and the Fool to enter the hovel, while he remains outside, seeking further...

...will endure. In such a night as this? O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all — O, that way madness lies, let me shun that! No more of that. (3.4.18-22) The dash in line 20 indicates an unspeakable gap in Lear's reflection, a hiatus opening...

...is not kind, that his heart is not frank. This may help remind him of how precarious his sanity is: O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that (21-22). The tension throughout is sustained by the familiar comparatives of quantity and substance:...

...such a night as this? 91 O Regan, Goneril! 10 Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all! — 20 O, that way madness lies; let me shun that! No more of that. KENT Good my lord, enter here. LEAR Prithee go in thyself, seek thine own ease; This tempest will not...

...will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril, Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that. No more of that. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...

...desire of smart alecks to be smarter alecks. This is worthwhile? Surely not. As Shakespeare put it: "O, that* way madness lies; let me shun that*; No more of that*." THOUGH, ALTHOUGH These two words mean the same thing and are employed interchangeably with two exceptions:...

...undeserving victim: In such a night as this? O Regan, Goneril! Your kind old father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that. (19-22) Madness will be induced by dwelling on his plight as victim and dotard rather than on his power...

...In such a night To shut me out? Pour on; I will endure. Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all— O, that way madness lies, let me shun that! No more of that. [italics added] The psychological question is, How did Lear know which way madness lies, so as to avoid...

...Lear enters the equivalent of the brass vessel to peer beneath the veils into human nature, he cries 'O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that' (King Lear, HI.iv.21). engineering approaches envisaged by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. The possibility...