...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! (I.ii.128-39) The other major address to nature in the play is Lear's curse...

...knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. (I.ii.l 15-23) The bastard Edmund opposes his personal fate to Gloucester's apocalypse, the evocation...

...knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." His "necessity," "heavenly compulsion," and "divine thrusting on" sound like references to religious...

...the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on' (/, 2, 114-120). But Kent seems to disagree: 'It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions'...

...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrustingon. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...

...knaves, theives, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star... Expanding on the rejection of custom and appeal to nature in his first soliloquy,...

...knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edmund uses only a part of the reference. The other part is acknowledgement by denial, of the existence...

...thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star. (I.ii.izS-jS) Human society in Edmund's view is debased. The mind to Edmund...

...spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary 120 influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity...

...sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. (1.2) Shakespeare knew that an individual's psyche is a lock that can be opened if the right psychological...