More accurately, King Dick 3.

Think Lear has other matters to worry him.  Poor Fool.  LOL

ISM

The Life and Death of Richard the Third

ACT I
SCENE I. London. A street.

Enter GLOUCESTER, solus
GLOUCESTER
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.


>From: Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Reading
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:58:38 +0800
>
>Wow, really????  THAT is something that won't come out in your average
>uni lecture on Shakespeare I'll bet!  I'm off to get a copy of the
>play asap.  (and to everyone out there who will prob. tell me I can
>get a copy off the web, yes I know, but I still like to think the
>printed page is superior to computers!!! <grin> Allow me my delusion!)
>
>On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:48:12AM -0500, greer.bobby wrote:
>     Rayna,
>
>         It is my understanding that King Lear was disabled and was
>probably CP. The
>     famous line, "Now is the summer of our discontent..." is the beginning
>of the
>     silliloquy to which I referred.
>
>     Bobby
>
>     Rayna Lamb wrote:
>
>     > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:59:06AM -0500, Bobby Greer wrote:
>     >     In a message dated 3/21/01 1:44:01 PM,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>     >
>     >     << Mind you, I'm a fully fledged highbrow literary snob now, and
>proud of
>     >     it!!!!!!!!! >>
>     >
>     >     Now Rayna, don't go too highbrow on us. I liked King Lear mysel.
>The best
>     >     sililoquy on being CP I have ever read. Ol' William Shakespeare
>had a way
>     >     with words!
>     >
>     >     Bobby
>     >
>     > Haven't most of my contributions to the list proved that I'm quite
>     > capable of being lowbrow? lol
>     > Haven't read King Lear yet, I'll have to keep an eye out for the
>     > soliloquy you mentioned.  The Bard certainly did do wonderful things
>     > with language, I can forgive him for having such BIMBOS for female
>     > characters because of that.  And he gave us the perfect quote for
>     > summing the human race, `Oh Lord, what fools these mortals be'.
>     >
>     > Rayna

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