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" Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother... "
Lessings Werke - Page 183
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1766
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Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare

William C. Carroll - Drama - 1996 - 268 pages
...fitness to be true son and heir, using nature, as it were, to justify or determine the order of law: Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are...generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? (1.2.6-9) ' The play links Gloucester's and Edgar's descents in several ways, and their roles as reflectors...
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Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Studies in Early Modern Reification

Hugh Grady - Drama - 1996 - 270 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? (i. ii. 1-6) And it is of course from within the logic of such a Hobbesian state of nature that lago...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base',...as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us with ' base , base bastardy ', 10 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce...
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Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry: Proceedings of the 4th KIAS Annual ...

Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag...as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve of fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard...as true. As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base, base ? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition...
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Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture

Marianne Novy - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 328 pages
...legally seals it from sight): the biological nature of one's existence from conception to the present. Why "bastard"? Wherefore "base", When my dimensions...as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With "base"?... (1.2.6- 10). Indeed, Edmund goes further, arguing that the assuredly passionate nature...
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy

George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a hrother? Why hastard? Wherefore hase? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous and...
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Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-century Women Novelists and Appropriation

Julie Sanders - Drama - 2001 - 274 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag...as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? (1. 2.1-10; conflated text) The bastard is a challenger...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag...as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition...
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History

Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custom and permit / The curiosity of nations to deprive me / For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines /...true / As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us / with 'base', base bastardy. . . . / Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land" (King Lear 1.2.1-16)....
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