King LearLongmans, 1907 - 152 pages |
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Page xii
... Gloucester's castle . Thither King Lear betakes himself , and finds his messenger , the disguised Kent , in the stocks and his daughter Regan anxious to persuade him to return to Goneril's court . During his talk with Regan , Goneril ...
... Gloucester's castle . Thither King Lear betakes himself , and finds his messenger , the disguised Kent , in the stocks and his daughter Regan anxious to persuade him to return to Goneril's court . During his talk with Regan , Goneril ...
Page xiii
... Gloucester , to let him be exposed . On an open heath with scarce a bush for many miles about , King Lear is left to ... Gloucester , who has been imposed upon by the lying tales of his natural son Edmund . The sufferings of Lear are ...
... Gloucester , to let him be exposed . On an open heath with scarce a bush for many miles about , King Lear is left to ... Gloucester , who has been imposed upon by the lying tales of his natural son Edmund . The sufferings of Lear are ...
Page xiv
... story which were most probably known to our author . He might have read the tale in the thirteenth century works such as Robert of Gloucester's Metrical Chronicle and Laya- mon's Brut ; no doubt also he was familiar with xiv INTRODUCTION .
... story which were most probably known to our author . He might have read the tale in the thirteenth century works such as Robert of Gloucester's Metrical Chronicle and Laya- mon's Brut ; no doubt also he was familiar with xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xv
... Gloucester and his two sons 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 ...
... Gloucester and his two sons 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 ...
Page xix
... picture of a good knight sans peur et sans reproche , who , though ill - treated by his father Gloucester owing to the false machinations of Edmund , could still faithfully adhere to his blind and 2 * INTRODUCTION . xix.
... picture of a good knight sans peur et sans reproche , who , though ill - treated by his father Gloucester owing to the false machinations of Edmund , could still faithfully adhere to his blind and 2 * INTRODUCTION . xix.
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