King LearLongmans, 1907 - 152 pages |
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Page xi
... quiet place for some five or six years with his wife and daughters and a little grand - daughter , the poet passed away on his fifty - third birthday , 23rd April , 1616 . INTRODUCTION . The Plot . That " Lear is especially. KING LEAR . xi.
... quiet place for some five or six years with his wife and daughters and a little grand - daughter , the poet passed away on his fifty - third birthday , 23rd April , 1616 . INTRODUCTION . The Plot . That " Lear is especially. KING LEAR . xi.
Page xii
... plot and the subsidiary plot . Put briefly , the main plot of the play centres round the person of King Lear . Anxious to test the love of his three daughters Goneril , Regan and Cordelia , he demands an expression of love from each in ...
... plot and the subsidiary plot . Put briefly , the main plot of the play centres round the person of King Lear . Anxious to test the love of his three daughters Goneril , Regan and Cordelia , he demands an expression of love from each in ...
Page xiii
... Plot . Among all the numerous stories in ancient folklore which Shakespeare used as a framework upon which to hang the creations of his genius there was perhaps none more popular than the story of King “ Leir ” and his three daughters ...
... Plot . Among all the numerous stories in ancient folklore which Shakespeare used as a framework upon which to hang the creations of his genius there was perhaps none more popular than the story of King “ Leir ” and his three daughters ...
Page xiv
... plot , and to the details of which he closely adhered , can be found in the Latin chronicle called Historia Britonum , compiled in about the middle of the twelfth century by one Geoffrey of Mon- mouth . Whether Shakespeare who , as he ...
... plot , and to the details of which he closely adhered , can be found in the Latin chronicle called Historia Britonum , compiled in about the middle of the twelfth century by one Geoffrey of Mon- mouth . Whether Shakespeare who , as he ...
Page xv
... plot of King Lear consists of the story of the Earl of 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 ...
... plot of King Lear consists of the story of the Earl of 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 ...
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