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" Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... "
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated...art. Off, off, you lendings. Come, unbutton here. [Tears at his clothes.] (III.iv.105-14) Lear's language remains the same after the storm is over. In...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you landings: come, unbutton here." This famous speech is closely linked to Montaigne's discussion in the...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Lear — Lear III.iv When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes....
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History

Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...owe'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art" (emphasis added) (tearing off his clothes). And then it comes: Lear calls Edgar "philosopher" four...
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Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language

Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...followed by the imperative to rid oneself of them, if only symbolically. Of Edgar's persona, Lear says, "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,...art. Off, off, you lendings! come, unbutton here" (Ill.iv. 111-14). In "Mont Blanc," the violent weather acts in an analogous fashion, stripping away...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 46

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. (3.4.96-102) Seeing clothes as a disguise hiding human reality is plausible, but Lear swerves into...
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L'infini

Université de Bordeaux III. Groupe d'études et de recherches britanniques - English literature - 2002 - 324 pages
...ows't the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself ; unaccommodated...more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou are. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here. (Acte III, iv, 95-103) La scène se passe sur la...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 33

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...iv, 99-103] Now I can't remember the original punctuation, but I couldn't make it my own until I said Thou art the thing itself- unaccommodated. Man is...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. JWRM. You see I have a query against that line. DS. Oh, how extraordinary! But there he is naked, or...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 13

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...actively seeks knowledge out by the use of 'reason in madness'. He sees Edgar as the image of truth — ' unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art' (in, iv, 109-11) — and proceeds to tear off his own clothes in an action expressive of his desire...
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The Animal-human Boundary: Historical Perspectives

Angela N. H. Creager, William C. Jordan - Medical - 2002 - 372 pages
...we experience ourselves in the world. DEFINING "HUMAN": THE NON-PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES Unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. — King Lear Without giving the matter much thought, it seems clear what we mean by "human." Traditionally,...
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