 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...speech, Edgar expresses his own sadness, and the feelings of melancholy felt by all those who remain: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. He appeals for truthfulness, and admits that those who are taking over the kingdom will never be faced... | |
 | Steve Bachmann - Law - 2001 - 224 pages
...lead him to investigate further the historical, theoretical, and political implications of Huey Long. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never so see much, nor live so long.97 — William Shakespeare 92 For example, there is no record that Huey... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...form might that future action take? Fittingly of course Lear remains equivocal to the last: EDGAR : The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...see so much, nor live so long. Exeunt with a dead mardi. (5.3. 322-5) In the closing lines of the play 'feeling' and 'speaking', rather than feeling... | |
 | Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...Daddy. (370) In many ways the tone echoes the melancholic resignation of Edgar at the end of Lear: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.322-5) The real clue may lie in the expression or declaration 'Speak what we feel, not what we... | |
 | Janet Hill - Drama - 2002 - 266 pages
...in private grief, Kent cannot help (5.3.320-1). Edgar is perhaps left alone to speak the epilogue: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (5.3.324-7) But his words are inadequate. I agree with Peter Brook's assessment of them as "trite,"... | |
 | Michael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley - Fiction - 2001 - 264 pages
...sustain. KENT: I have a journey, Sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, — 1 must not say no. EDGAR: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. T& htt preferred friend* he revealed fM true character* Mary Mason Fairbanks's Disguised Debate with... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...realm (because Kent, the loyal squire, will follow his master, the dead King Lear into his grave): "The weight of this sad time we must obey, / Speak...young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long" (King Lear Quarto 5.3.318-21). King Lear ends in utter resignation. For one should not forget: these... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 240 pages
...uncertainty: Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no. Edgar. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (v, iii, 321-6) There is no emphasis on the restoration of order and no expressed hope in the future.... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - History - 2002 - 412 pages
...tragedy ends with Edgar's words - in another quarto given to Albany - which leave the future open: weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (V, 3, 322-5) The only certainty is that an epoch has come to an end and it is final. The ending of... | |
 | Graham Holderness - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...romantic retirement. The closing lines of the play familiar to us from modern editions as Edgar's: The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what...are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long 10. - for a century and a half reappeared in a radically altered form, though still spoken (as in the... | |
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The weight of this sad time we must obey ; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we, that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
