...and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty ! — Strange! strange! [£21/. Edm. This ¡s ¡-urfrii of our behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as...

...Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust. 11— v. 3. 490. Eoils, wrongly ascribed to Heaven. This is the excellent foppery of the world! that,...fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachersl, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of...

...the stars above us, govern our conditions" (4.3.32-3). Edmund, on the other hand, scorns such views: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if...

..."These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us," his villainous bastard Edmund replies: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeit of our own behaviour-we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon,...

...We have seen the best of our time. (I.ii.l 12-23) But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;...

...articulate and clever one. Chaucer is as ironic about her views as Edmund is ironic in Xing Lear about how "we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity." Neither Shakespeare's Edmund nor Chaucer accepts as an excuse "an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence"...

...own petar. Hamlet — Hamlet III.iv Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd. Iago— Othello Hi This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars: as if we...

...were an ominous portent. A modern voice — and not a negligible one — is Edmund's when he says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as...

...addicts. Blaming others. . . . when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star....

...(254). This attitude sounds similar to the type of predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion...