 | Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 292 pages
...and that none are exempt from the shame and debasement of mortality, for, in the words of Richard II, 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 . . . (Richard 77,3.2.160-3) The Fool performs... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...ruin and decay; The worst is death, and death will have its day. (m. ii. 93) Richard knows that . . . 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. (m. ii. 1 60) Therefore : My gay apparel for... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...impressed some people as no more than a garrulous, pompous egomaniac of shambling gait and wandering eye. 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... | |
 | Carlos M. N. Eire - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 592 pages
...monarch: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and iherc the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp Allowing him a breath, a little scene,... | |
 | Matt Braun - Fiction - 2002 - 294 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 temples of a king Keeps Death his court . . . Fontaine plowed on with the soliloquy from King Richard II. The patrons of the Tivoli were by... | |
 | Daniel Jones - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 560 pages
...by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'cl; All murder'd. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death bis court, and there the Antick sits, 20 Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; witf ss:vz az... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - History - 2003 - 286 pages
...to being Death itself, the ultimate fool, mocking the pretensions of the living, as in Richard II: For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (3.2.160-3) AD Nuttall has suggested that Hamlet's... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - Drama - 2005 - 658 pages
...of Kings, How some have been depos'd, some slain in War, Some poyson'd by their Wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murther'd: for within the hollow Crown...Temples of a King, Keeps death his Court, and there the Antique sits, Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pomp! 110 Allowing him a short fictitious Scene,... | |
 | John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...by the 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 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... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...at our solemnity? The example for the noun form of "antick" internalizes such theatrical ambiguity: within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...king, Keeps death his court; and there the antick sits Scoffing his state. And under the verb form: Mine own tongue Splits what it speaks; the wild disguise... | |
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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... 
