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 94
... Death on my state ! Wherefore Should he sit here ? This act persuades me That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practice only . Give me my servant forth . Go tell the Duke and's wife I'd speak with them ! Now , presently ! ° Bid them ...
... Death on my state ! Wherefore Should he sit here ? This act persuades me That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practice only . Give me my servant forth . Go tell the Duke and's wife I'd speak with them ! Now , presently ! ° Bid them ...
Page 130
... death , Women will all turn monsters . Second Servant . Let's follow the old Earl , and get the Bedlam To lead him ... death die the customary death of old age 105-8 His ... anything his lack of all self - control leaves him open to any ...
... death , Women will all turn monsters . Second Servant . Let's follow the old Earl , and get the Bedlam To lead him ... death die the customary death of old age 105-8 His ... anything his lack of all self - control leaves him open to any ...
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... death would hourly die Rather than die at once ! ° -taught me to shift Into a madman's rags , t ' assume a semblance ... death 186-88 O ... once how sweet is life , that we choose to suffer death every hour rather than make an end at ...
... death would hourly die Rather than die at once ! ° -taught me to shift Into a madman's rags , t ' assume a semblance ... death 186-88 O ... once how sweet is life , that we choose to suffer death every hour rather than make an end at ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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