 | Graham Wallas - 1920 - 344 páginas
...the chances of rescuing it from the perplexity of its own divided soul? Should we sing with the poet, Vex not his ghost: O, Let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack ol this tough world Stretch him out longer. King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3 Or should we grant liberal... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 páginas
...He faints ! My Lord, my Lord 1 Kent. Break, heart; I prithee, break ! Edgar. Look up, my Lord. Kent. Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him That would on the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (v, iii, 311-15) When Edgar decides 'He is... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 páginas
...Rather than die at once!" [V.iii.185-87]), death itself can also be a release from life's tortures: Vex not his ghost. O let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (V.iii.314-16) Cordelia's murder "prevents" the suicide... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 456 páginas
...(312.) And he turns on Edgar— in Brook's production fiercely— reviving the wheel-torture image: Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer (313-315). Kent brushes off Edgar's He is gone, indeed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 páginas
...faints. — My lord, my lord! 310 KENT Break, heart; I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. KENT Vex not his ghost: O let him pass; he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR He is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is he hath... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 páginas
...EDGAR He faints. - My lord, my lord! LEAR Break, heart, I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. KENT Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world 310 Stretch him out longer. EDGAR O, he is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - 1995 - 396 páginas
...utility of living.10 We need only recall Kent's comment when signs of life are noted in the dying Lear: "Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer." ' ' A right to seek assistance in committing suicide... | |
 | John Jones - 1999 - 310 páginas
...faints. [(To Lear)] My lord, my lord! KENT. Break, heart, l prithee break. EDGAR. Look up, my lord. KENT. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this rough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR. He is gone indeed/0 So, two changes. Some second... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 páginas
...imagining, 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to th'gods, They kill us for their sport' (lv. i. 36-7): Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass, he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer, (v. iii. 314-16) But Lear himself, in a much debated... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 páginas
...world to the next. Kent's compassionate injunction explicitly touches on this theme of acceptance: 'Vex not his ghost: O let him pass! He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer' (v. iii. 315-17). Edgar earlier touched upon the... | |
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Look up, my lord. Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. 
