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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... characters confirms this feeling . Considered simply as psychological studies few of them , surely , are of the highest interest . Fine and subtle touches could not be absent from a work of Shakespeare's maturity ; but , with the ...
... characters confirms this feeling . Considered simply as psychological studies few of them , surely , are of the highest interest . Fine and subtle touches could not be absent from a work of Shakespeare's maturity ; but , with the ...
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... character who represents us as well as Lear himself ? If so , we could breathe a sigh of relief and simply graph the ... characters of the opposite sex , and Shakespeare is no exception . In King Lear the women are either more or less ...
... character who represents us as well as Lear himself ? If so , we could breathe a sigh of relief and simply graph the ... characters of the opposite sex , and Shakespeare is no exception . In King Lear the women are either more or less ...
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William Shakespeare. speare's characters , dividing them by groups into good and bad . The highest percentage of good characters in any group is the percentage of good women in the comedies : 96 percent good , 4 percent bad . The ...
William Shakespeare. speare's characters , dividing them by groups into good and bad . The highest percentage of good characters in any group is the percentage of good women in the comedies : 96 percent good , 4 percent bad . The ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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