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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... course been made , but the original readings are listed in a note following the play , so that the reader can evaluate them for himself . The editors of the Signet Classic Shakespeare , fol- lowing tradition , have added line numbers ...
... course been made , but the original readings are listed in a note following the play , so that the reader can evaluate them for himself . The editors of the Signet Classic Shakespeare , fol- lowing tradition , have added line numbers ...
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... course ; where , if you violently proceed against him , mistaking his purpose , it would make a great gap in your own honor and shake in pieces the heart of his obedience . I dare pawn down ° my life for him that he hath writ this to ...
... course ; where , if you violently proceed against him , mistaking his purpose , it would make a great gap in your own honor and shake in pieces the heart of his obedience . I dare pawn down ° my life for him that he hath writ this to ...
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... course , is a tendency which pro- duces symbols , allegories , personifications of qualities and abstract ideas ; and we are accustomed to think it quite foreign to Shakespeare's genius , which was in the high- est degree concrete . No ...
... course , is a tendency which pro- duces symbols , allegories , personifications of qualities and abstract ideas ; and we are accustomed to think it quite foreign to Shakespeare's genius , which was in the high- est degree concrete . No ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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