 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...Lear is that the King believes this of himself- and regrets it: 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. (4.6.38-41) This cosmic image linking hell and heaven, fusing the Christian tradition with classical... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Drama - 1998 - 196 pages
...theology. At the end, he can speak to Cordelia those blazing lines: You do me wrong to take me out o' the 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) Now 'the gods themselves' throw incense on human sacrifices (5.3.20). He and Cordelia will... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Drama - 1998 - 196 pages
...theology. At the end, he can speak to Cordelia those blazing lines: 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 mollen lead. (4.7.45) Now 'the gods themselves' throw incense on human sacrifices (5.3.20). He and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...with classical mythology (in its recollection of Ixion): 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. (21.43-6) Vast in imaginative scope and elevated in poetic tone though these lines are, they are plain... | |
 | Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 68 pages
...warring winds 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...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. CORDELIA. Sir do you know me? LEAR. You are a spirit, I know, when did you die? Where have I been?... | |
 | Richard Webster - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 244 pages
...the nature of the soul, and the word "soul" appears many times in his works. Here are a few examples: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (King Lear) Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. (Henry V) Lie... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...Lear's utterances has disappeared. His mythic recognitions cannot be disillusioned by his literal ones. Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. . . . You arc a spirit, I know; where did you die? I know not what to say. I will not swear these are... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...afterlife, his of hell, hers of heaven, in the wonderful lines, You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. She asks him, "Sir, do you know me?" He says, as he has said before, "I am a very foolish, fond old... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...of the method comes in King Lear. Lear's reunion with Cordelia (4.6) is heralded by a mighty image: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. But after that the episode is sustained by a succession of entirely plain, largely monosyllabic phrases:... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
