...petar. Hamlet — Hamlet III.iv Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd. Iago— Othello Hi This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars: as if we...

...an ominous portent. A modern voice — and not a negligible one — is Edmund's when he says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as...

...This attitude sounds similar to the type of predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion...

...King Lear. Determinism in the stars? Even Edmund knew that that was rationalization and evasion. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we...

...on our lives. Self-determination and the power of the will, he contends, is all that matters: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeits of our own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if...

...world. that. when we are sick in fortune.—often the surfeit of our own hehav iour.~we make guihy of our disasters the sun. the moon. and the stars: as if we were villains hy necessity; fools hy heavenly compulsion: knaves. thieves. and treachers. hy spherical predominance;...

...seem to be married to her. Your question raises an important issue for addicts. Blaming others. . . . when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains...

...mean. This in part is what Gloucester is trying to do and his son Edmund jeers at him for it: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we...surfeit of our own behaviour we make guilty of our disaster the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,...

...leaving Edmund alone for his second soliloquy, on the folly of his father's belief. Edmund reflects: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as...

...metaphysically determined (and therefore unalterable): 'When we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... by a divine thrusting...