 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...suggested Shakespeare wrote Hamnet's epitaph in the words of Arthur's mother Constance in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. . ." But although the sentiments certainly evoke every reality of grief for a lost child, Dr Rowse's... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. K. Phil. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Const....his form: Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? VI. ON Music From Newman, University Sermons (quoted in RH Mutton's Cardinal Newman). There are seven... | |
 | Anne McCracken, Mary Semel - Self-Help - 2000 - 330 pages
...talks to me that never had a son. KING PHILIP: You are as fond of grief as of your child. CONSTANCE: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. O Lord, my boy, my... | |
 | Timothy Morton - Alcohol - 2000 - 246 pages
...Shakespeare has beautifully painted this passion, in the lamentation of Constance for her son, in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son; My life, my joy, my food, my all the world. Some such expressions... | |
 | Leslie O'Dell - Performing Arts - 2002 - 442 pages
...but as she leaves, she pulls it all down again, and her confused words mirror her distracted reason: Grief fills the room up of my absent child: Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this... | |
 | Joss Bennathan - College and school drama - 2001 - 264 pages
...knows that, without her son, her own position, privilege and safety are threatened. King John CONSTANCE Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...form. •> Then have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. She unbinds her hair.... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...pretty Arthur more. 'As fond of grief you say, 'as of my child' He talks to me that never had a son. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form: Then have I reason to be fond of grief. O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world! King John, Act... | |
 | Patricia L. Munhall - Nursing - 2001 - 704 pages
...like that in the Mother's Day poem, which follows this one by Shakespeare: Grief fills up the room of my absent child Lies in his bed, walks up and down...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: Mother's Day On Sunday I was a mother for a little while. VJith one final push the baby was out. And... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...her to control herself with their inability to empathise: He talks to me that never had a son . . . Grief fills the room up of my absent child Lies in...his form. Then have I reason to be fond of grief? (3.4.91,93-8). Fittingly famous for its lyrical beauty, this speech steers the direction of the play.... | |
 | W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...dignity, a Wealth, a bubble, A queen in jest, only to fit the scene. [Richard III, IV.iv.82-91] (23) Grief fills the room up of my absent child: Lies in...his form. Then have I reason to be fond of grief? [Kingjohn, III.iv.93-98] (24) This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no this... | |
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of... 
