Notes And Comments Upon Certain Plays And Actors of Shakespeare With Criticisms
Notes And Comments Upon Certain Plays And Actors of Shakespeare With Criticisms
James Henry Hackett
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Forrest, instead of uttering — " And my poor fool is liang'd !" By way of an apostrophe to GordelicCs fate, turned from the conteniphition of the lifeless object of his all-absorbing solicitude and spoke the line interroga- tively to Kent, as though Lear could abstract his thoughts then from Cordelia to inquire about the fate of his professional "fool" or jester, whereas, I am confirmed by a careful re-consideration of my original conception that by ''^ ])oor fooV in this place Lear refers to h...is C(yrdelia, whom lie in his madness just before has refused to believe dead, and whom until that moment he has been trying to arouse, by saying in the ear of her corpse — " I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. " But, at this juncture, having exhausted his ingenuity in efforts to discover a sign of life in her, con- cludes — " And my poor fool is hang'd !" or in other words — ' After all, I find that my poor innocent is indeed strangled to death. There is " no life " in her !' For my part, I cannot imagine how any careful student or judicious reader of Shake- speare's context here (and elsewhere in connexion with the epithet) can doubt that Lear, by "poor fool " refers to his unwise in her beginning and unfortunate in her ending-daughter, Cordelia, or 110 NOTES UPON KING LEAR.
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