 | Adele Wills - 2004 - 104 pages
...sufferings, is reunited with Cordelia only to be parted again almost immediately when she is murdered. LEAR: Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones....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. [He lays her... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...enters with Cordelia dead in his arms. To us, as well as to those present in the play, he cries out: Howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I...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. Lend me a looking... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - 2004 - 148 pages
...In his final agony and analysis of events, Lear resorts to the metaphor of the looking-glass: "LEAR: Howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones// Had I...I'd use them so// That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever// 1 know when one is dead, and when one lives;// She's dead as earth. Lend me a... | |
 | Beryl Bainbridge - 2005 - 244 pages
...the elements. Consider his words at the close of the play when he enters with the hanged Cordelia: Howl, howl, howl, howl - O! you are men of stones,...I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. Death of Gene Kelly, Greer Garson, Beryl Reid, Michael Bentine, Willie Rushton, Ella Fitzgerald and... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - 2005 - 214 pages
...angry, grief-stricken man in great torment, feeling the absolute void caused by his daughter's death: Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!...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. (V.iii) The tender... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...[Edmund is home off 'Enter LEAR with CORDELIA in his arms', EDGAR, Captain, and others following LEAR Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I...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. Lend me a looking-glass;... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 pages
...collapse, the stark, hopeless strength with which he earlier accepts the deepest measure of his loss. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!...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. (V.iii. 257-61)... | |
 | Katharine Goodland - 2006 - 276 pages
...the hard hearts that enable them silently to watch the performance of mourning and death before them: "Howl, howl, howl ! O (you) are men of stones! / Had...I'd use them so/ that heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever" (5.3.308-10). Similarly, in the N-Town Passion, when the Virgin Mary learns that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...awhile. [Edmund is borne off.] Enter Lear, with Cordelia in his arms [Gentleman, and others following]. Lear. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so 260 That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives;... | |
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I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack : — O, she is 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. 
