...makes his owner stoop. Constance — King John IILi Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies on his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Constance — King John III.iv Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders...

...she has had a true awakening to the real experience of grief and says, profoundly: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief? Grief is no longer great, nor proud. (m.iv.93-8) As we started to rehearse...

...point. She defends her right to grieve, explaining the emotion's psychological function: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (KJ 3.4.93-8) Alexander Leggatt notes the same phenomenon in Richard...

...Shakespeare's own grief at the death of his son Hamnet in August, 1596: Constance: "Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;" The Buddha raised his hand. There was one proviso: each mustard seed had to come from a house where...

...grief, she replies with an eloquent simplicity that breaks free from the tangled plot: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. (3.4.93-97) If there is no secure link between these lines and the death of Hamnet, there is, at the...

...father, writing King John, has Constance, whose son has disappeared, poignantly say: 'Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his fom He arrived in London and, by the age of 27, had tasted success as an actor and writer, with several...

...the grieving mother, Constance, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, use grief to fill the void: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me: puts on his pretty loohs, repeats his words. Remembers me of all his gracious parts, stuffs out his vacant garments with...

...into images, but her feelings become persons: grief haunts her as a living presence: Grief fills the room up of my absent child; Lies in his bed, walks...Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. And death is welcomed as a bridegroom; she sees the visionary monster...

...your cttiM Gtntt. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down wjtk, me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,...gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with hti form. Then I have reason to be fond of grief." What variations cannot love play on this one string...

...memory can cause pain, but it can also console. As Constance explains in King John: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks...out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? (3.4.93-98) At this stage in her play, however, she is, like Hamlet,...