King LearMacmillan & Company, 1935 - 185 pages |
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Page 148
... scene and the equally brief Scene v . amongst the storm scenes of the main - plot , Shakespeare keeps before us the intrigues of Edmund . In their sordidness these scenes form a striking contrast to the surrounding magnificence . 1. 3 ...
... scene and the equally brief Scene v . amongst the storm scenes of the main - plot , Shakespeare keeps before us the intrigues of Edmund . In their sordidness these scenes form a striking contrast to the surrounding magnificence . 1. 3 ...
Page 152
... Scene V Edmund wins Cornwall's favour by betraying Gloucester . " The intervention of the fifth scene is particularly judicious — the interruption allowing an interval for Lear to appear in full madness in the sixth scene ( Coleridge ) ...
... Scene V Edmund wins Cornwall's favour by betraying Gloucester . " The intervention of the fifth scene is particularly judicious — the interruption allowing an interval for Lear to appear in full madness in the sixth scene ( Coleridge ) ...
Page 180
... Scene the audience is to suppose that it is night . Brutus therefore opens with the remark : - I cannot , by the progress of the stars , Give guess how near to day . And throughout the scene the darkness of night is insisted on by the ...
... Scene the audience is to suppose that it is night . Brutus therefore opens with the remark : - I cannot , by the progress of the stars , Give guess how near to day . And throughout the scene the darkness of night is insisted on by the ...
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Alack Albany allusion anger bear Burgundy character Child Rowland Cordelia Corn Cornwall daughters dear death Dost thou doth Dover duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester Edited by GUY Edmund effects Enter EDGAR Exeunt Exit eyes F. S. BOAS father follow Fool fortune foul fiend France Gent Gentleman give Glou Gloucester's castle gods Goneril and Regan grace grief GUY BOAS hath hear heart heaven hendiadys hither honour hovel I'ld JULIUS CÆSAR Kent King Lear knave lady Lear's letter lord madam master means nature night noble nuncle Oswald P. H. B. LYON pity play plot poor pray Prithee Quarto Scene servant Shakespeare sirrah sister speak speech stage stand storm sub-plot sword tell thee there's thine thing THOMAS HARDY thou art traitor trumpet villain wits words ΙΟ وو