 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - American literature - 1991 - 364 pages
...seem averted, however, than Lear enters, with Cordelia in his arms, howling: "She's gone forever. / I know when one is dead, and when one lives. / She's dead as earth" (V.ii.260-62). The horror of this death seems to be made all the more intolerable by its incomprehensibility.... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 456 pages
...grief, in a world where gods give no hope beyond the grave. The speech could hardly be simpler: She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth (259-261 ). Then grief yields to sudden hope, Lear sounds the first of a series of false tonic notes:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...weeping along with wailing; or perhaps for lighming looks. That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass; 235 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of re (V, iii) King Richard II 86 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. And all unlooked-for from Your... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...play in which Lear recognizes that Cordelia is dead and still insists that she might breathe and live. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. (5.3.262-63) Heinz Kohut once defined narcissism, the narcissistic conception of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I would use them so, That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack! She's gone for ever. [He lays her down:] I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass: 260 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. KENT Is this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. A plague upon you... | |
 | William Desmond - Philosophy - 1995 - 282 pages
...men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. (King Lear V, iii, 259-63) The philosopher has no category of Howl. Who then are the men of stones?... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...anguish over Cordelia, announced in harsh monosyllables, is equally definitive: She's gone forever. / know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth. (5.3.264-6) Lear's echo sounds in the startling opening of Dickens' "Christmas Carol": "Marley was... | |
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I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. 
