Regan never anticipates her own end.
Dying is
                                                         A repeater’s art; the
                    Process of it offstage - as it is with
          All good villains.

                             Death is the body. Her last moments

                                                         Are as a sickbedded
                                                         Creature carried offstage,

          The last act too peopled with
          Corpses

                              To allow a death scene.
                              Death brings remembrance, a mere moment before
                                                                                                                  Regan is cast off, before

Our actress returns onstage, the body at last her own, for her final bow;
we applaud