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...our best guide to this phenomenon. In King Lear he has the bastard son of Gloucester make the case: 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 moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When...

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...nature, Edmund; the child of the marriage contract is besieged by the child born outside the contract: Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound. Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land. Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As...

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...heat. [they go SCENE 2 A room in the Earl of Gloucester's castle Enter EDMUND, with a letter EDMUND Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When...

...could be obtained by paraphrasing and trimming. In his first soliloquy, Shakespeare's Edmund says: 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? In Loti's and Vedel's version he...

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...While the idea of various aspects of nature serving people is not surprising, Edmund's declaration — "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound" (King Lear 1.2.1-2) — is clearly intended to be shocking, since this vow of loyalty is also a denial...