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" All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be... "
Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ... - Page 373
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...scene, Richard reduces his entire reign to a doomed pageant staged within the mental space of the crown: Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; . . . and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores thorough his castle wall,...
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The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

Nicholas B. Dirks - History - 1993 - 486 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered - for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...moment of the actual King Richard's downfall. This is an original Shakespearean fiction: All murthered - for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchic, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh...
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The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered: — For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, — As if this flesh, which walls...
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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology

Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - History - 1997 - 622 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered — for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if the flesh which walls about...
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Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors

Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murder' d: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour' d thus...
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The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature

Karl Siegfried Guthke - Art - 1999 - 316 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, lnfusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, / All murthered-for within the hollow crown /That rounds the mortal temples...and kill with looks; / Infusing him with self and vain conceit, /As if this flesh which walls abont our life / Were brass impregnable; and humour'd thus,...
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