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 217
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
Page 230
... seems to find none of man's better quali- ties in the world of the brutes ( though he might well have found the prototype of the selfless love of Kent and Cordelia in the dog whom he so habitually maligns ) ; but he seems to have been ...
... seems to find none of man's better quali- ties in the world of the brutes ( though he might well have found the prototype of the selfless love of Kent and Cordelia in the dog whom he so habitually maligns ) ; but he seems to have been ...
Page 241
... seems capable of existing only on foundations laid by its opposite . It is also self - destructive . .. These . . . are undeniable facts ; and , in face of them , it seems odd to describe King Lear as " a play in which the wicked ...
... seems capable of existing only on foundations laid by its opposite . It is also self - destructive . .. These . . . are undeniable facts ; and , in face of them , it seems odd to describe King Lear as " a play in which the wicked ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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