King Lear, Volume 5Penguin Group USA, Incorporated, 1963 - 306 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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Page 92
... blind , But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind . Fortune , that arrant whore , Ne'er turns the key to th ' poor . But for all this , thou shalt have as many dolors for thy daughters as thou canst tello in a year . Lear ...
... blind , But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind . Fortune , that arrant whore , Ne'er turns the key to th ' poor . But for all this , thou shalt have as many dolors for thy daughters as thou canst tello in a year . Lear ...
Page 152
... blind Cupid ; I'll 140 not love . Read thou this challenge ; mark but the penning of it . Gloucester . Were all thy letters suns , I could not see . Edgar . I would not take this from report : it is , And my heart breaks at it . 145 ...
... blind Cupid ; I'll 140 not love . Read thou this challenge ; mark but the penning of it . Gloucester . Were all thy letters suns , I could not see . Edgar . I would not take this from report : it is , And my heart breaks at it . 145 ...
Page 265
... blind King of Paphlagonia begging his dutiful son to lead him to headlong death from the top of a rock because , as he put it , " I cannot fall worse than I am . " From the doleful speeches of father and son , it emerged that a bastard ...
... blind King of Paphlagonia begging his dutiful son to lead him to headlong death from the top of a rock because , as he put it , " I cannot fall worse than I am . " From the doleful speeches of father and son , it emerged that a bastard ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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