All 4 Uses of
clamor
in
King Lear
- Revoke thy gift, Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.†
Scene 1.1clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy addition.†
Scene 2.2 *
- —There she shook The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamour moisten'd: then away she started To deal with grief alone.†
Scene 4.3clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a man Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding Who 'twas that so endur'd, with his strong arms He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out As he'd burst heaven; threw him on my father; Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him That ever ear receiv'd: which in recounting His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded, And there I left him tranc'd.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice