...tells his dying brother, The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us: The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. (Lr. V.iii. 170-73; cf. IV.ii.78-80) For the tragic protagonists, deeds, with their unforeseen consequences,...

...character to another, so that it is Cornwall as he is dying, not Edgar, who tells Edmund of his father 'The dark and vicious place where thee he got / Cost him his eyes' (5.3.163-4); inclines now become, in Brook's film, a dying man's realization of a form of justice and...

...thy father's son. 165 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. EDMUND Thou hast spoken truth. The wheel is come full circled; I am here. 170 ALBANY Methought thy...

...and thy father's son. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us: 170 The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. Thou'st spoken right, 'tis true. The wheel is come full circle; I am here. [to Edgar:] Methought thy...

...the play by Edgar's answer both to his father's jest and his brother's mocking defense of adultery: "The dark and vicious place where thee he got, / Cost him his eyes" (FF.5.3: 3133-34). Edgar's victory refutes both Edmund's vision of a universe whose heavens are empty...

...Gloucester is harsh indeed: The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. (5-3-173-76) Edmund's ready agreement — "Th'hast spoken right. 'Tis true" — may surprise more liberal...

...price of his adultery (and not, as Cornwall charges, of his treason),55 explaining to the Bastard: The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. (V.iii. 173-4) Gloucester pays for his whoring with his eyes, forfeiting those "precious stones" (testicles...

...good sport at his making": The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us; The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. (5.3.170-73) He has by now displaced the deep shock of complicity, has assumed the savior's mantle...

...when Edgar, speaking to the defeated Edmond, attributes their father's suffering to his sensuality: 'The dark and vicious place where thee he got | Cost him his eyes.' But the final stretches of the action take King Lear far beyond the simplicities of the morality play...

...with his thumbs at the end of their savage duel, making clear what drove his vision of connectedness: 'The dark and vicious place where thee he got / Cost him his eyes' (5.3.163-4). But even such performances paled beside Stephens. I must mark four crowning moments. In...