Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,... The Oxford and Cambridge review - Page 2741846Full view - About this book
| John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...for attention as pieces of advice. He opens the third section of his speech with the following words: Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence. The last two words call attention to themselves because, while Richard succeeds in dismissing reverence,... | |
| John Leeds Barroll - Literary Collections - 2006 - 326 pages
...by the communal charismatic group experience. Compare Richard IPs notorious collapse into humanness: "I live with bread like you, feel want / Taste grief,...subjected thus / How can you say to me, I am a king?" (Richard II 3.2.175-77). No matter what he himself may intend, Richard's humanness means not a bond... | |
| Buford Norman, James Day - History - 2006 - 242 pages
...sunshine day?" (5.1.26-27; [1995], 382; [1994], 67). Shakespeare amplifies the thought in Richard II, live with bread, like you; feel want, Taste grief,...Subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king? (3.2.171-73) and following, Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar [...] And straight am nothing.... | |
| 532 pages
...power is lost ; and so, of those who stood uncovered before him, he asks this piteous question : " I live with bread, like you ; feel want, Taste grief,...subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king ? " Think of the salutation of Antony to the dead Caesar : " Pardon me, thou piece of bleeding earth."... | |
| Christopher J. Cobb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 312 pages
...dialogue then calls attention to Richard's bodily condition as no different from that of any other person: "I live with bread like you, feel want, / Taste grief,...subjected thus, how can you say to me I am a King?" ( 1 75-77) . Hotspur brings Tamburlainian language into 1 Henry IV, where it is admired but firmly... | |
| Russell A. Fraser - 1988
...deserts, but as he falls he glistens. This increment, modifying Shakespeare's given, makes a difference. I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends. Made less than his name, Shakespeare's hero becomes his grief, a version of Everyman but idiosyncratic,... | |
| Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007
...humoured thus Comes in at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall and farewell king! Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence. (Richard II 3.2. 160-72) Richard's speech here works with an analogy between the human body, the role... | |
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