 Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.  The Metropolitan - Page 1641848Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...may chance, if Fortune will, To find in heart to bear another more good will. So Cordelia will ask 'Why have my sisters husbands if they say ] They love you all?' (1.90—1). Shakespeare is very likely to have read the version printed in 1590 in Book 2, Canto 10... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...me, loved me. 86 I return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Happily when I shall wed 90 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Drama - 2001 - 36 pages
...me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love...wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall cany Half my love with him, half my care and duty: Sure I shall never many like my sisters, To love... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...expands on this idea in lines 90 to 98, when she exposes the falseness of Goneril and Regan by asking: Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? (lines 94-95) i To this reasonable question Lear has no answer except the pained 'But goes thy heart... | |
 | Christina Luckyj - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 212 pages
...be unlawfully born' (Measure for Measure 3.1.190), Cordelia defends patrilineage, stating clearly, 'Haply when I shall wed / That lord whose hand must...carry / Half my love with him, half my care and duty' ( Tragedy 1.1. 98-100). Jardine claims that 'to her father, Cordelia's silence is not a mark of virtue,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - History - 2002 - 412 pages
...her with words, and she levels her abdication of love at her traitorous, shameless father: Happily, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him .... (I, i, 100-102) The trouble is, the words are too calm, too cold for the kind of sharp rage and... | |
 | Natalie Zemon Davis - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 236 pages
...uma panIc, it carattci-c iffimitato della richiesta di Lear e dci pnopri obblighi mci suol confronti (“Haply, when I shall wed, / That Lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry / Hatf my hove with him, half my care and duly”, Quand'io mi sposerO, se mai dovna accadene, quel'uomo... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...tries to defend herself by maintaining a balance: 'I love your majesty / According to my bond. . .' 'Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, / To love my father all'. The core of Lear's later anguish is in his having cut himself off from Cordelia: 'I lov'd her most,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 236 pages
...from reality, for instance, originates in a tragic inability to cope with Cordelia's avowal that the 'lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry/ Half my love with me, half my care and duty' (1, i, 103-4). This universal human dilemma informs King Lear and The Tempest;... | |
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