 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 Seiten
...interpretation of what he sees, an interpretation at once morally true and factually 'still, still, far wide': 'Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound/ Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears / Do scald.' Indeed, throughout this scene, the language taken line by line or speech by speech resists attempts... | |
 | William F. Zak - 1984 - 220 Seiten
...out of Lear's mouth upon awakening to see Cordelia would be: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.44—47; emphasis mine) Even if we allow for a certain distracted irrationality in Lear's speech,... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 Seiten
...recovers his sanity after being reunited with his daughter LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. ( IV. vii) In radically transforming the source of King Lear, Shakespeare, one might say, stopped just... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 Seiten
...the belief that he has died and been reborn into an afterlife, and he talks about tears to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-47) These are the tears of ashamed self-knowledge, manly tears caused by a realization of what... | |
 | William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 Seiten
..."almost" miracle (cf. II.ii. 165-1 66) of Cordelia's forgiveness: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead, (IVvii.45-48) once again a syncretic image, which the New Arden editor annotates merely as Christian... | |
 | William Irwin Thompson - 1990 - 484 Seiten
...rest of us, is strapped to the wheel and can say with King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out o th' grave. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. FIVE AD2000: The Millennium Under New Management "Major fighting in Viet Nam will peter out about 1967;... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 Seiten
...and 'a very foolish fond old man'.38 There is certainly a humbled quality in his words to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel...of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.39 There is little more than that. Bradley thinks that Lear finds knowledge in his madness. Is... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 Seiten
...speaks. Ambiguity still: is this madness? Hallucination? Metaphor? You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead (45-48). Half-circle the wheel had come for the Lears who began titanic, tough, autocratic, tyrannically... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 Seiten
...tears are not salt water but a dangerous and destructive liquid. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-48). He associates tears, especially his own, to poison as he explicitly names Cordelia: Lear:... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 Seiten
...How does my royal lord? How fares Your Majesty? KING: (As Lear) You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave. Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (Oh, it's so true!)' repeatedly evident when Shakespeare [Came] to Broadmoor (Cox 1992c) where, for... | |
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How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave : Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. 
