...before bringing her back to life; he controls her return, and he sends her back again to death: She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. This feather stirs;...

...men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever! I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass, If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. (V.iii.258-64)...

...relationship widi Cordelia until she is dead. At diat point, he suddenly becomes clear-sighted and literal: "I know when one is dead, and when one lives; / She's dead as eardi" (V.iii.259-60). Lear's embarrassment in die face of his living, loving daughter is surely one...

...That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so I know when one is dead, and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, 268 Why then she lives. 269 KENT Is...

...Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass; 238 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, 239 Why, then she lives. KENT Is...

...not that negation "as such" comes to the fore— but that it returns in such a vividly specular form. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. (5.3.259-62) We...

...tongues and eyes, I would use them so That heaven ' s vault should crack . She ' s gone for ever . 255 I know when one is dead and when one lives . She's dead as earth. [He lays her down] Lend me a looking-glass . If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why,...

...It is awful to have the gift of feeling everything with such intensity'), we read the words: 'she's gone for ever /I know /when one is dead /and when/ one lives / lend me a looking glass'." This extract is juxtaposed visually with an image from the climax of Godard's...

...men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. Act v Sc iii Cordelia's...

...look there!" (309 — 10). This call is no more or less suffused with illusion than the certainty of "I know when one is dead and when one lives; / She's dead as earth" (258 -59). Despite some surviving habits of idealization, those left onstage do not try to imagine...