...know'st, the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry — I will preach to thee, mark me ! When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.' And, finally, of the Middle Temple Hall — the bricks, as Jack Cade would have said, — 'are alive...

...Tom and Kent as Caius — gives a harsh version of the play metaphor often employed by Shakespeare: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (ActIV, Sc. vi, lines 174-175) 21. Robert B. Heilman, The Great Stage: Image and Structure in King...

...denuded world an appropriate moral landscape for Lear, which itself is made to stand as theafram mundi: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. Though he doesn't say so, Kott actually uses as his model for the comparison of Shakespeare to Beckett...

...irresistible. . . . There is plenty of Shakespeare's stirring battleaccent. But of verse such as Lear's "-When we are born we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools;" . . . there is in this play very little; only perhaps in Hotspur's dying words "And thought's the slave...

...that we smell the air We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark. Glouc: Alack, alack the day! Lear: When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (4.6.174-81) However, even granting this appraisal of man's fate to be sound, it begs the more basic...

...child he hears not hunger, fear, need, frustration, or sorrow, but the stark echo of his own mockery: "When we are born we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools" (178 —79) . Nature is made to lament the comic desolation of history.70 The blind man says of Lear...

...must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry. . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. When we next see Lear he is awakening from a drugged sleep. The Doctor has given him the repose he...

...Dickinson University Press, 1997), 215. CHAPTER Six Valperga: Theatrical Plots and Dramatic Intrigue When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. — ShjkesrK*are, King l.car With both Valperga; or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince...

...essere venuti in questo grande teatro di pazzi... (IV> fi)li i8 [we came erying hither... / . . . / When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools.] Il mondo è reale e la scarpa stringe davvero. Anche la sofferenza è reale. Ma il gesto con cui un...

...removed for him, as by a servant) but in the content of his ensuing sermon ("I will preach to thee"): When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. (/F,vJ, 184-185) This is a sermon, presumably, because it interprets the well-known text of tears with...