...own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; 130 drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that...

...presence proves our feet upon the path. Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we...necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ..." COMMON SENSE...

...relationships he holds so dear. But it is, says Edmund, "an admirable evasion of whoremaster man," to "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and...villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion" (I, ii). In any case, by the time of the storm scene, both Lear and Gloucester have lost their faith...

...there was the sinister Edmund's notorious critique of his father's hypocritical use of the word: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains...

...characters are evil by choice, not out of necessity. They are entirely responsible for what they do: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if...

...his scorn (most powerfully felt in the images) in the same rhetorical symmetries as Gloucester: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disaster the sun, the moon, the stars, as if we...

...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished; his offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. [he goes EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we...

...universal culprit. WS tells it as it is. Cosmic influences When we are sick infortune, Oft' the surfeits of our own behaviour, We make guilty of our disasters, The sun, the moon and stars; As if we were villains of necessity; Fools by heavenly compulsion; Knaves, thieves and treachers,...

...EDMOND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when \ve are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers...

...christological symbolism by dressing Tom in a loin cloth ind putting a crown of thorns on his head. & This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, the stars, as...