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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... Nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects . Love 115 cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide . In cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond cracked ' twixt son and father . This ...
... Nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects . Love 115 cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide . In cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond cracked ' twixt son and father . This ...
Page 227
... nature , or , if there is no omis- sion , to what distortion of these elements is it due that such beings as some of these come to exist ? This is a question which Iago ( and perhaps no previous creation of Shakespeare's ) forces us to ...
... nature , or , if there is no omis- sion , to what distortion of these elements is it due that such beings as some of these come to exist ? This is a question which Iago ( and perhaps no previous creation of Shakespeare's ) forces us to ...
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... Nature , the reversal of all histories . " Tragedy always seems to hinge upon a reversal , or peripety . Here a peripety is the starting point , when the King reverses his traditional role by stepping down from the throne . As the ...
... Nature , the reversal of all histories . " Tragedy always seems to hinge upon a reversal , or peripety . Here a peripety is the starting point , when the King reverses his traditional role by stepping down from the throne . As the ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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