...makes his owner stoop. Constance — King John IILi Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies on his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Constance — King John III.iv Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders...

...feeling, but never, in my mind, more truly or beautifully than when he makes Constance exclaim — Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...with his form: — Then have I reason to be fond of Grief.8 In the course of the day, however, the kindly acts and expressions of my new neighbours, and...

...Augustine's point. She defends her right to grieve, explaining the emotion's psychological function: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (KJ 3.4.93-8) Alexander Leggatt notes the same phenomenon in Richard II. When Leggatt observes that...

...has lost her son she has had a true awakening to the real experience of grief and says, profoundly: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? Grief is no longer great, nor proud. (m.iv.93-8) As we started to rehearse the play, I already knew...

...thoughts start into images, but her feelings become persons: grief haunts her as a living presence: Grief fills the room up of my absent child; Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. And death is welcomed as a bridegroom; she sees the visionary monster as Juliet saw "the bloody Tybalt...

...Here Shakespeare shows how we embrace our griefs and squeeze them till they take on pleasing shapes: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. — Shakespeare, in King John -5 Mental Correctors, Suppressors, and Censors "Don't pay any attention...

...can also fill it; memory can cause pain, but it can also console. As Constance explains in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (3.4.93-98) At this stage in her play, however, she is, like Hamlet, in excessive grief, in continuous...

...(3.4.92). Characteristically Constance inverts criticism of her behavior and turns it into a justification: "Grief fills the room up of my absent child / Lies...his form. / then have I reason to be fond of grief?" (3.4.93-8). For Constance, her son and her grief are inseparable. Her grief nourishes her, for it is...

...the echo of Shakespeare's own sorrow in the lines of Constance grieving over her son in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child: Lies in...vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to he fond of grief. . . . O Lord! My boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the...

...You are as fond of grief as of your child. CONSTANCE Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 95 Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on...his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? 100 Rare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. ^She unbinds...