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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... fear too far . 335 Goneril . 340 845 Safer than trust too far . Let me still take away the harms I fear , Not fear still to be taken . I know his heart . What he hath uttered I have writ my sister . If she sustain him and his hundred ...
... fear too far . 335 Goneril . 340 845 Safer than trust too far . Let me still take away the harms I fear , Not fear still to be taken . I know his heart . What he hath uttered I have writ my sister . If she sustain him and his hundred ...
Page 102
... fear . Cornwall . Shut up your doors , my lord ; ' tis a wild night . My Regan counsels well . Come out o ' th ' storm . Exeunt . 291 his particular himself personally 292 purposed determined 297 give himself let him go ; he insists on ...
... fear . Cornwall . Shut up your doors , my lord ; ' tis a wild night . My Regan counsels well . Come out o ' th ' storm . Exeunt . 291 his particular himself personally 292 purposed determined 297 give himself let him go ; he insists on ...
Page 119
... fears ° me to think of . Cornwall . I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death ; but a provoking merit , set a - work by a reprovable badness in himself . " Edmund . How malicious is my ...
... fears ° me to think of . Cornwall . I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death ; but a provoking merit , set a - work by a reprovable badness in himself . " Edmund . How malicious is my ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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