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...thanks to Shakespeare, makes a poignant lament not unlike Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech: . . . Why "bastard"? Wherefore "base," When my dimensions...With "base," With "baseness, bastardy— base, base" — (1.2.6-10) We read those words, we hear Edmund's haunting cry, and we imagine millions of others...

...brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base, When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand...nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than ctotn within a .lull, stale, tired bed, Go Co th' creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep...

...Shakespeare when momentarily a cultural outsider challenges the assumptions that exclude him or her: Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are...shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they use With base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More...

...Shakespeare's Edmund says: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? In Loti's and Vedel's version he says: Pour quelle raison irais-je me soumettre a la coutume qui me...

...law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, with a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to creating a whole tribe of fops Got between sleep and wake? Well...

...law my services are bound. Wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom and permit the curiosity of nations to deprive me for that I am some twelve...as generous, and my shape as true as honest madam's issue?78 The demand with which he concludes his speech, 'Now gods, stand up for bastards,' looks forward...

...law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? Bastardy base?...

...Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, 5 For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag...My mind as generous and my shape as true. As honest madam 's issue? Why brand they us 10 With 'base'? With 'baseness'? 'Bastardy'? 'Base, Base'? Who in...

...status "Wherefore should I / stand in the plague of custom ... for that I am some twelve or fifteen moonshines / Lag of a brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore...and my shape as true, / As honest madam's issue?" King Lear (1.2.2-9), The Arden Shakespeare ed. K. Muir (New York: Routledge, 1991). 25. This performance...