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 viii
... Perhaps the poaching epi- sode is true ( but it is first reported almost a century after Shakespeare's death ) , or perhaps he first left Strat- ford to be a schoolteacher , as another tradition holds ; perhaps he was moved by Such wind ...
... Perhaps the poaching epi- sode is true ( but it is first reported almost a century after Shakespeare's death ) , or perhaps he first left Strat- ford to be a schoolteacher , as another tradition holds ; perhaps he was moved by Such wind ...
Page 191
... perhaps acted again in 1605 : on May 8 , 1605 , it is entered in the Stationers ' Register . Pre- sumably Shakespeare used the edition appearing in that year , in writing his own play . The publication , then , of the old chronicle ...
... perhaps acted again in 1605 : on May 8 , 1605 , it is entered in the Stationers ' Register . Pre- sumably Shakespeare used the edition appearing in that year , in writing his own play . The publication , then , of the old chronicle ...
Page 222
... perhaps excelled all but Homer in securing the first purpose of a writer , by ex- citing restless and unquenchable curiosity and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The shows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
... perhaps excelled all but Homer in securing the first purpose of a writer , by ex- citing restless and unquenchable curiosity and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The shows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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