King LearClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 pages King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. |
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... passage's numerousness. [What this ' numerousness ' exactly means I do not know. Capell does not print the passage as verse.] Schmidt {Zur Text- kritik, p. 12) : Equalities cannot be right here ; at best it can but be equality. Equality ...
... passage's numerousness. [What this ' numerousness ' exactly means I do not know. Capell does not print the passage as verse.] Schmidt {Zur Text- kritik, p. 12) : Equalities cannot be right here ; at best it can but be equality. Equality ...
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... passage may be properly paraphrased, ' where your natural relation to, and love for, me claim my bounty, by deserving it; or, in other words, « that I may extend my largest bounty where your natural affection deservedly claims it as due ...
... passage may be properly paraphrased, ' where your natural relation to, and love for, me claim my bounty, by deserving it; or, in other words, « that I may extend my largest bounty where your natural affection deservedly claims it as due ...
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... passage as I have regulated it in the text. [See Text-notes.] Regan would say that in the truth of her heart and affection she equals the worth of her sister. Without this change in the pointing, she makes a boast of herself without any ...
... passage as I have regulated it in the text. [See Text-notes.] Regan would say that in the truth of her heart and affection she equals the worth of her sister. Without this change in the pointing, she makes a boast of herself without any ...
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... passage when that text was printed. And in the rewriting there was a happy change made from the commonplace of ... passages in which she appears or is referred to is, that she was her father's little pet, while her sisters were big, bold ...
... passage when that text was printed. And in the rewriting there was a happy change made from the commonplace of ... passages in which she appears or is referred to is, that she was her father's little pet, while her sisters were big, bold ...
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... passage than the present. Moreover, had Kent been so devoted to Cordelia as to suffer banishment for her sake, would he not have followed her to France rather than followed as a servant And in thy best consideration check This hideous ...
... passage than the present. Moreover, had Kent been so devoted to Cordelia as to suffer banishment for her sake, would he not have followed her to France rather than followed as a servant And in thy best consideration check This hideous ...
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Page 302 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me: For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 160 - We'll no more meet, no more see one another : But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter ; Or rather a, disease that's in my flesh, Which I must needs call mine : thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,
Page 193 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Page 164 - Stain my man's cheeks ! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad ! [Exeunt LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and FOOL.
Page 184 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 43 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base?
Page 18 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say, They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, [To love my father all.] Lear.
Page 8 - Tell me, my daughters (Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Page 339 - Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.