 Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that 'I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother...  King Lear - Page 11by William Shakespeare - 1924 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...of thinking: "Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound. Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custom, and permit / The curiosity.../ Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?" (I, ii, 1-6). The truth that society recognizes is nothing more than a "curiosity," one possible way... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...act i, scene 2: Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity...moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? (1.2.1-6) By choosing nature over custom, and by being a "base" social upstart who employs craftiness,... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...of the play with: Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity...some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Edmund has / 'esprit de quantite so essential to tactile measurement and to the impersonality of the... | |
 | Russ McDonald - 1994 - 324 pages
..."lag of a brother": Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity...fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? (King Lean. 2. 1-6) The affinity of the word "nations" — in essence a "birth" word — to the topic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...EDMUND, solus EDMUND Thou, Nature, an my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity...me? For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base'? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit Tilt CUriOSity Of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshmes Lag of a brother? \\'hy bastard? (i. ii. 1-6) Thus Edmund understands from the beginning... | |
 | William C. Carroll - 1996 - 268 pages
...Edmund therefore does not really want to overthrow the legal order when he asks "Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custom and permit / The curiosity of nations to deprive met?]" (1.2.2-4). Instead, he wishes to render the social order arbitrary, dissociated from the order... | |
 | Peter Levine - 1998 - 308 pages
...scruples: Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to diy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in die plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For diat I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brodier? (I.ii.1-6) Edmund believes diat nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...bastard EDMUND Thou, nature, art my goddess . To thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity...me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base', When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind... | |
 | Marianne Novy - 2004 - 328 pages
...legally seals it from sight): the biological nature of one's existence from conception to the present. Why "bastard"? Wherefore "base", When my dimensions...honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With "base"?... (1.2.6- 10). Indeed, Edmund goes further, arguing that the assuredly passionate nature of the illicit... | |
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