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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... stage is covered by a roof that projects from the rear and is supported at its front on two posts , but the groundlings , who paid a penny to stand in front of the stage , were exposed to the sky . ( Performances in such a playhouse ...
... stage is covered by a roof that projects from the rear and is supported at its front on two posts , but the groundlings , who paid a penny to stand in front of the stage , were exposed to the sky . ( Performances in such a playhouse ...
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... stage there was occasionally some sort of curtained booth or alcove allowing for " discovery " scenes , and some ... stage and some fifteen hundred additional spec- tators seated in the three roofed galleries . The stage , pro- tected by ...
... stage there was occasionally some sort of curtained booth or alcove allowing for " discovery " scenes , and some ... stage and some fifteen hundred additional spec- tators seated in the three roofed galleries . The stage , pro- tected by ...
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... Stage : 1579-1642 . 2d edi- tion . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1980. On the acting companies , the actors , the playhouses , the stages , and the audiences . Harbage , Alfred . Shakespeare's Audience . New York : Colum- bia ...
... Stage : 1579-1642 . 2d edi- tion . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1980. On the acting companies , the actors , the playhouses , the stages , and the audiences . Harbage , Alfred . Shakespeare's Audience . New York : Colum- bia ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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