...Primogeniture would make Albany consort to Goneril but he is not that in the play until the final scene: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The preceding is in the political dimension. Lear has extended himself to an opposite extreme of primogeniture...

...Primogeniture would make Albany consort to Goneril but he is not that in the play until the final scene: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The preceding is in the political dimension. Lear has extended himself to an opposite extreme of primogeniture...

...Albany's surrogate son. Staring down at the silent figures of father and daughter, Edgar proclaims, "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." Having also taken in this sad sight, Albany looks up at the audience as he closes the play: "The oldest...

...commentary on the situation that relates it back to the first scene (at which he was not present): "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say" (S.3.324-25).7 We have watched in horror as two families and a kingdom have been destroyed as they...

...this book is an extended commentary on those poignant lines at the end of Shakespeare's King Lear: "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." It is sad indeed, this telling of the wasting away of one so lovely and so vibrant. And yet, as Richard...

...the word "appearances" reminds me that all appearances are dissolved in V,3: "The weight of this and time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." p. 1 15 (pencil mark; see also the pencil mark on p. 67): "Christian transvaluation of Lear's pagan...

...140 DEATH BE NOT PROUD I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say, The oldest have born most: we that are young Shall never see so much, or live so long. KING LEAK 141 Chronology...

...the speaker offers the play's listeners two ways of putting into words what they have just witnessed: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (History 24.318—21)...

...as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. — Montaigne — The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 — King Lear, 1606 Tell the truth, and so confound your adversaries....

...the gored163 state sustain. 295 Kent I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master164 calls me, I must not say no. Edgar The weight of this sad time...say. The oldest hath borne most, we that are young 300 Shall never see so much, nor live so long. EXEUNT, WITH A DEAD MARCH165 1 60 instrument of torture...