 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pāgines
...Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy itself; and by that... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pāgines
...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...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,... | |
 | Beatrice K. Otto - 2001 - 444 pāgines
...death more eloquently expressed than in Shakespeare's history of King Richardll, (1597): . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (3. 2.160- 63) m A fool could also be anyone who... | |
 | JaHyun Kim Haboush - 2001 - 424 pāgines
...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; . . . — Shakespeare, Richard II THE GREAT KING... | |
 | Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 68 pāgines
...the ghosts they have depos'd, 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, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pāgines
...Ironically (and Shakespeare can be very ironic) , Richard predicted it all two acts before: . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...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,... | |
 | George Oppen - 2002 - 494 pāgines
...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...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,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 pāgines
...famous speech where Richard fantasizes about his own death by a different sort of penetration: . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...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,... | |
 | Elke Gilson - 2002 - 356 pāgines
...Vordergrund: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And teil sad stories of the death of kings [...] For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...a king Keeps death his court, and there the antic sits Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a üttle scene • To monarchise,... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pāgines
...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...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 this... | |
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To monarchize, be 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... 
