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 105
... effect , more than all yet : That when we have found the King - in which your pain ° That way , I'll this - he that first lights on him , Holla the other . 50 Exeunt [ severally ] . 55 Scene II . [ Another part of the heath . ] Storm ...
... effect , more than all yet : That when we have found the King - in which your pain ° That way , I'll this - he that first lights on him , Holla the other . 50 Exeunt [ severally ] . 55 Scene II . [ Another part of the heath . ] Storm ...
Page 248
... effect . For the first and last of their spoken love - making , excellently characteristic as it is , consists of Goneril's Our wishes on the way May prove effects .... Shall This trusty servant pass between us : ere long you are like ...
... effect . For the first and last of their spoken love - making , excellently characteristic as it is , consists of Goneril's Our wishes on the way May prove effects .... Shall This trusty servant pass between us : ere long you are like ...
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... effects of this will also speedily be known . What is particularly striking , however , is that in the latter instance the principal effect is already on the stage before us , though its nature is undisclosed , in the person of the ...
... effects of this will also speedily be known . What is particularly striking , however , is that in the latter instance the principal effect is already on the stage before us , though its nature is undisclosed , in the person of the ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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