...place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And...an universal prey, And last eat up himself. Great Agamemmon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking.. . . Text IV Macbeth II.iii.59-77:...

...Ulysses's speech in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (1601-2): 'Force should be riglu; or rather, riglu and wrong Between whose endless jar justice resides...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.' (Act I, Scene 3,11.116-124). 6 I am not alone in choosing this terminology. See, for example, Christopher...

...whose endless jar justice resides Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (I, iii, 109-124) In Shakespearean tragedy, the market is just such a cycle of consumption and desire,...

...similar to the storm and the prophecy cited by Gloucester in Lear, he explains: Then everything include itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite,...perforce an universal prey And last eat up himself (Troilus and Cressida, \ 19-124) The way in which the appetite consumes30 both spiritedness and thought...

...whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...Must make perforce an universal prey And last eat up itself. [I, iii, 109-24] Eleutheria: Who would speak as an enemy of freedom? Not even tyrants do. The...

...(l. 116) which becomes increasingly selfstultifying and ultimately self-consuming: Then everything includes itself in power Power into will, will into...and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And list eat up himself. (I. iii. 119-24) Disjunctions of this kind are central to the play's structure...

...higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. (I, iii, 109-26) In the Greek camp, then, there is individualism among the chieftains instead of a...

...whose endless jar justice resides Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd By him one step...

...degree is shak'd Which is the ladder of all high designs, The enterprise is sick.... Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (I, 3, 99-124) Ulysses may be 'authorized' as far as his analysis of the situation is concerned, in...

...endless jar justice resides — Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. 1.3.109—24) It is the loss of degree that John Donne laments in the famous passage from "An Anatomie...