King LearLongmans, 1907 - 152 pages |
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Page xiii
... Edgar , who masquerades as a lunatic in order to elude the wrath of his father , the Earl of Gloucester , who has been imposed upon by the lying tales of his natural son Edmund . The sufferings of Lear are alleviated by the secret ...
... Edgar , who masquerades as a lunatic in order to elude the wrath of his father , the Earl of Gloucester , who has been imposed upon by the lying tales of his natural son Edmund . The sufferings of Lear are alleviated by the secret ...
Page xv
... Edgar and Edmund , and we find the original of this in the second volume of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia . Sidney narrates " the pitiful state and story of the Paphlagonian unkinde king and his kinde sonne " ; here again Shakespeare ...
... Edgar and Edmund , and we find the original of this in the second volume of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia . Sidney narrates " the pitiful state and story of the Paphlagonian unkinde king and his kinde sonne " ; here again Shakespeare ...
Page xix
... Edgar and Edmund . - Just as the virtue of Cordelia makes the wickedness of her sisters more repulsive , so the noble character of Edgar makes to stand out in à more un- enviable light the bold villainy of Edmund . " Edgar is a simply ...
... Edgar and Edmund . - Just as the virtue of Cordelia makes the wickedness of her sisters more repulsive , so the noble character of Edgar makes to stand out in à more un- enviable light the bold villainy of Edmund . " Edgar is a simply ...
Page xx
... Edgar had , like the Edgar of Nahum Tate , married Cordelia and lived happy ever after . Edmund ranks of course as the villain of the piece , at least as far as the male characters are concerned , a villain , however , of the bold swash ...
... Edgar had , like the Edgar of Nahum Tate , married Cordelia and lived happy ever after . Edmund ranks of course as the villain of the piece , at least as far as the male characters are concerned , a villain , however , of the bold swash ...
Page xxi
... Edgar , Sonne and Heire to the Earl of Gloucester , and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam . As it was plaid before the King's Majesty at White - Hall , upon St. Stephen's Night in Christmas Holli- daies . " There is ...
... Edgar , Sonne and Heire to the Earl of Gloucester , and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam . As it was plaid before the King's Majesty at White - Hall , upon St. Stephen's Night in Christmas Holli- daies . " There is ...
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