...audience in the same way. How would it touch an audience of beggars, one wonders. thy name is Gloucester; Thou must be patient; we came crying hither: Thou...first time that we smell the air We wawl and cry. (4, 6, 179-82) The past is invoked here as part of sensory memory - the sounds and sights of shared,...

...madness. If thou wilt weep my fortune, take my eyes. LEAR I know thee well enough. Thy name is Gloucester. Thou must be patient. We came crying hither. Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air We wail and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark me. GLOUCESTER Alack, alack the day! LEAR When we are born,...

...regard to its treatment of criminals. And, finally, he sees that human life is inescapably tragic: Thou must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou know'st the first rime that we smell the air, We wawl and cry . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this...

...Gloucester, he summarizes what he calls his preaching: I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou...air, We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee; mark. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. As a preaching, the tragic...

...I need. (Shakespeare, 1905:923-4) And to Gloucester, whose eyes have been gouged out, he preaches, Thou must be patient. We came crying hither; Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air We bawl and cry. I will preach to thee. Mark. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great...

...für das mit Geduld zu tragende, schwere Dasein des Menschen (IV,6): „Thou must be patient. We come crying hither: / Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air / we wawl and cry." („Du mußt geduldig sein, wir kommen weinend an. / Du weißt: wenn wir die Luft zum ersten Male riechen,...

...if it knew already that to enter humanity is to be born in pain, to suffer pain, and to cause pain. Thou must be patient; we came crying hither: Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry. Or as George Gascoigne had put it, giving an old sentiment a new turn in his translation...

...regard to its treatment of criminals. And, finally, he sees that human life is inescapably tragic: Thou must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air, King Lear 133 We wawl and cry . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of...

...off my boots: harder, harder! So. EDGAR O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! LEAR If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester. Thou must be patient. We came crying hither; Thou know'st the first time that we smell...

...distracted antics, gave way to uncontrollable weeping, Lear suddenly took him in his arms and said, 'If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. / I know thee well enough, thy name is Gloucester.' Lear's recognition of Gloucester, whereby the mad man gave comfort to the blind man, was...