
by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
This is the excellent foppery of the...
Language: English
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, -- often the surfeitof our own behavior, -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
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Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Edmund's speech", 2011 [baritone and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
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This text was added to the website: 2011-12-28
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Word count: 91