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...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...

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...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,...