...defiance and despair, and at both poles of his turmoil is the tragic fact of sacrificial kingship: 'But what are kings when regiment is gone, | But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' (5. 1. 26-7)In Richard II, Shakespeare echoes both the specific rhetoric and the larger dramatic logic...

...the Marlowe play most often associated with Richard II - Edward II, specifically Edward's lines: 'But what are kings when regiment is gone /But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' Where the associations begin and end is harder to judge than he implies, as this speech of Edward's...

...mind I am a king, Methinks I should revenge me of the wrongs That Mortimer and Isahel have done. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? My nohles rule; I hear the name of king; I wear the ctown, hut am controlled hy them — rr6 rememher...

...Conforming to Shakespeare's tragic paradigm, King Edward, Tamburlaine's opposite, now sombrely asks: 'But what are kings, when regiment is gone, /But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?' (5.1.26-7). Inspired in turn by Edward //, Shakespeare would go on in Richard II to develop an even...

...It. dramatic documentary In a long speech at the beginning of Act V, King Edward II reflects:' But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? (V. 1.25-6) The lines are often quoted as a political maxim, but the second contains a familiar Elizabethan...

...recognizes the diminished nature of his power in similar terms by the time of his deposition: "But what are kings, when regiment is gone, / But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?" (5.1.27-8). Expressed in these two descriptions of Edward's authority is the political tension that...

...the sun shines both by day and night" (1.1.16) to the deposed Edward's familiar question in Act 5: "what are kings when regiment is gone / But perfect shadows in a sunshine day" (5.1.26-27). Royal power, and in particular royal patronage, is given as sunshine: Spencer, I here...

...militanti di Outrage! prima che lo schermo sbiadisca e la voce fuori campo di Edoardo pronunci i versi: But what are Kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? I know not, but of this I am assured, That death ends all, and I can die but once. Come death, and...

...relinquish his crown, Edward is at last sensible of his royalty, and asks, as Richard II and Lear will, "what are kings when regiment is gone/ But perfect shadows in a summer's day?" (5.1.26-27). Having again and again bandied his crown about while still secure in it,...

...mind I am a king, Methinks I should revenge me of my wrongs, That Mortimer and Isabel have done. But what are kings, when regiment* is gone, But perfect...I bear the name of king ; I wear the crown, but am controll'd by them, By Mortimer, and my unconstant queen, Who spots my nuptial bed with infamy; Whilst...