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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... turn thy wheel . • Sleeps . 156 disposition inclination 157 rubbed diverted ( metaphor from the game of bowls ) 158 watched gone without sleep 160 A. heels even a good man may have bad fortune 161 Give God give 162 taken received 163 ...
... turn thy wheel . • Sleeps . 156 disposition inclination 157 rubbed diverted ( metaphor from the game of bowls ) 158 watched gone without sleep 160 A. heels even a good man may have bad fortune 161 Give God give 162 taken received 163 ...
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... turn the key . " o All cruels else subscribe . But I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children . Cornwall . See't shalt thou never . Fellows , hold the chair . Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot . Gloucester . He that ...
... turn the key . " o All cruels else subscribe . But I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children . Cornwall . See't shalt thou never . Fellows , hold the chair . Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot . Gloucester . He that ...
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... turn by the wanton indignity of Cor- delia's murder . In the language , as Miss Caroline Spurgeon has pointed out , allusions to violence multiply and ac- cumulate into a pervasive image as of " a human body in anguished movement ...
... turn by the wanton indignity of Cor- delia's murder . In the language , as Miss Caroline Spurgeon has pointed out , allusions to violence multiply and ac- cumulate into a pervasive image as of " a human body in anguished movement ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 182 |
Copyright | |
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