| Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 Seiten
...defiance and despair, and at both poles of his turmoil is the tragic fact of sacrificial kingship: 'But what are kings when regiment is gone, | But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' (5. 1. 26-7)In Richard II, Shakespeare echoes both the specific rhetoric and the larger dramatic logic... | |
| Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...the Marlowe play most often associated with Richard II - Edward II, specifically Edward's lines: 'But what are kings when regiment is gone /But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' Where the associations begin and end is harder to judge than he implies, as this speech of Edward's... | |
| Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds - 2003 - 492 Seiten
...mind I am a king, Methinks I should revenge me of the wrongs That Mortimer and Isahel have done. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? My nohles rule; I hear the name of king; I wear the ctown, hut am controlled hy them — rr6 rememher... | |
| Patrick Cheney - 2004 - 350 Seiten
...Conforming to Shakespeare's tragic paradigm, King Edward, Tamburlaine's opposite, now sombrely asks: 'But what are kings, when regiment is gone, /But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' (5.1.26-7). Inspired in turn by Edward //, Shakespeare would go on in Richard II to develop an even... | |
| Michael Hattaway - 2005 - 272 Seiten
...It. dramatic documentary In a long speech at the beginning of Act V, King Edward II reflects:' But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? (V. 1.25-6) The lines are often quoted as a political maxim, but the second contains a familiar Elizabethan... | |
| Thomas Page Anderson - 2006 - 252 Seiten
...recognizes the diminished nature of his power in similar terms by the time of his deposition: "But what are kings, when regiment is gone, / But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?" (5.1.27-8). Expressed in these two descriptions of Edward's authority is the political tension that... | |
| Curtis Perry - 2006 - 11 Seiten
...the sun shines both by day and night" (1.1.16) to the deposed Edward's familiar question in Act 5: "what are kings when regiment is gone / But perfect shadows in a sunshine day" (5.1.26-27). Royal power, and in particular royal patronage, is given as sunshine: Spencer, I here... | |
| Franco Marenco - 2007 - 499 Seiten
...militanti di Outrage! prima che lo schermo sbiadisca e la voce fuori campo di Edoardo pronunci i versi: But what are Kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? I know not, but of this I am assured, That death ends all, and I can die but once. Come death, and... | |
| Robert Zaller - 2007 - 844 Seiten
...relinquish his crown, Edward is at last sensible of his royalty, and asks, as Richard II and Lear will, "what are kings when regiment is gone/ But perfect shadows in a summer's day?" (5.1.26-27). Having again and again bandied his crown about while still secure in it,... | |
| 1910 - 460 Seiten
...mind I am a king, Methinks I should revenge me of my wrongs, That Mortimer and Isabel have done. But what are kings, when regiment* is gone, But perfect...I bear the name of king ; I wear the crown, but am controll'd by them, By Mortimer, and my unconstant queen, Who spots my nuptial bed with infamy; Whilst... | |
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