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 283
... questions that establish its distinctive coloring onstage . ( Some of its questions we shall return to later . ) It is rather its commands , its invoca- tions and appeals that have the quality of commands , its flat - footed defiances ...
... questions that establish its distinctive coloring onstage . ( Some of its questions we shall return to later . ) It is rather its commands , its invoca- tions and appeals that have the quality of commands , its flat - footed defiances ...
Page 291
... question we ask of it is , " Where am I in here ? " or " Who is like me ? " This question is un- sophisticated but important , because it shapes our most basic responses . Only when we have answered it do we know whom to love and hate ...
... question we ask of it is , " Where am I in here ? " or " Who is like me ? " This question is un- sophisticated but important , because it shapes our most basic responses . Only when we have answered it do we know whom to love and hate ...
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... question . Am I con- tent with the role played in King Lear by the wandering portion of my identity , the part I ... questions of the play , questions about the violent extremes we find within ourselves and in our experience . More ...
... question . Am I con- tent with the role played in King Lear by the wandering portion of my identity , the part I ... questions of the play , questions about the violent extremes we find within ourselves and in our experience . More ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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