...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls...

...impressed some people as no more than a garrulous, pompous egomaniac of shambling gait and wandering eye. within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize. {Richard II, m, ii, 160-5) James monarchised; but the gap between reality and illusion was wide. I...

...Vordergrund: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And teil sad stories of the death of kings [...] For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a üttle scene • To monarchise, be feared and kill with looks. Auch Beerenbaum tritt in die Nachfolge...

...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murthered — for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp . . . KING RICHARD II (3.2, 155-63) 19 Part I POWER For Good and for Power Is a Freighted Idea It Before...

...ruin and decay; The worst is death, and death will have its day. (m. ii. 93) Richard knows that . . . within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (m. ii. 1 60) Therefore : My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figur'd goblets for a dish of wood,...

...and that none are exempt from the shame and debasement of mortality, for, in the words of Richard II, within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp . . . (Richard 77,3.2.160-3) The Fool performs this mocking role in King Lear. His is the recalcitrant...

...Vordergrund: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings [...] For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...court, and there the antic sits Scoffing his state and grtnning at his pomp. Allowing him a breath. a little scene • To monarchise. be feared and kill with...

...ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kilTd; All murder'd: — for ray, The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings, ¡muck sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To...

...monarch: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and iherc the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp Allowing him a breath, a little scene,...

...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder' d: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court . . . Fontaine plowed on with the soliloquy from King Richard II. The patrons of the Tivoli were by...