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 225
... tragedy is witnessed : it startles and terrifies by suggesting that the folly of Lear and the ingratitude of his daughters are no accidents or merely individual aberrations , but that in that dark cold world some fateful malignant ...
... tragedy is witnessed : it startles and terrifies by suggesting that the folly of Lear and the ingratitude of his daughters are no accidents or merely individual aberrations , but that in that dark cold world some fateful malignant ...
Page 241
... tragedy gives no answer , and we are trying to go beyond tragedy in seeking one . But the world , in this tragic picture , is convulsed by evil , and rejects it . .. I might almost say that the " moral " of King Lear is presented in the ...
... tragedy gives no answer , and we are trying to go beyond tragedy in seeking one . But the world , in this tragic picture , is convulsed by evil , and rejects it . .. I might almost say that the " moral " of King Lear is presented in the ...
Page 296
... tragedy , by contrast , the world becomes murkier , the masculine - historical enterprise loses its centrality , friends and enemies become hard to distinguish from each other , and the feminine becomes a problem . In Shakespearean tragedy ...
... tragedy , by contrast , the world becomes murkier , the masculine - historical enterprise loses its centrality , friends and enemies become hard to distinguish from each other , and the feminine becomes a problem . In Shakespearean tragedy ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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