...comedy of Portia's and Nerissa's rings. 'I live', says the lethargic, selfpitying hero of Richard //, with bread, like you; feel want, Taste grief, need...Subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king? (In. ii. 171-3) Shylock's humane protest is more powerful than that, as when he evokes the crucified...

...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. 175 I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus, How can you say...

...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: ACKMOWLEDGMEMTS Hurlyburly by David Rabe. Copyright® 1985 by Ralako Corp. Reprinted by permission...

...Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood, With solemn reverence; throw away Respect, Obeysance, Form and Ceremonious Duty, For you have but mistook...me all this while, I live with bread like you, feel Wants, last Grief, Therefore am I no King, or a King nothing. Aum. Give to the Foe my Lord, this cold...

...audience's understanding and sympathy by enacting his subjection to Henry's 161 power; and well may he ask, "Subjected thus, / How can you say to me I am a king?" (III. ii. 176-77l. "Subjected," he is no longer king. Richard will be Henry's subject — for at least...

...theatre, Shakespeare has made him touch on the simplest needs and feelings that belong to everyone: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends. (III. ii. 175-6) The same appeal is made no less confidently in the most gripping and highly wrought...

...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...Subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king? BISHOP OF CARLISLE My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, But presently prevent the ways...

...what are friends for fear' (Richard III, 5. 2. 20); or of King Richard II's plaintive confession that 'I live with bread like you, feel want, /Taste grief, need friends' (3. 2. l75-6). In terms of the grammar with which I am concerned, the f1gure of the 'friend' is one...

...own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For you have but mistook me all this while: I live...subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king? (LYNN opens her eyes, very slowly moves toward the chair, her hand outstretched as if to touch her...

...different from any other man once the glad rags are off his back: '. . . Throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook...Need friends : Subjected thus, How can you say to me - 1 am a king ?'2 A king, it seems to Richard, is distinguished from his fellowmortals by his miseries...