King LearGrosset & Dunlap, 1909 - 208 pages |
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... hand that cut out many of the passages both in the Quarto text and the Folio text . The original form was , essentially , that of the Quarto , then followed a longer form , with the additions in the Folio , as substantially our modern ...
... hand that cut out many of the passages both in the Quarto text and the Folio text . The original form was , essentially , that of the Quarto , then followed a longer form , with the additions in the Folio , as substantially our modern ...
Page xiii
... hand to be converted into a tragedy of supreme effectiveness ; and while Shakespeare's genius nowhere exerted itself with more transcendent force and marvelous versatility , it nowhere found more promising ma- terials ready to its ...
... hand to be converted into a tragedy of supreme effectiveness ; and while Shakespeare's genius nowhere exerted itself with more transcendent force and marvelous versatility , it nowhere found more promising ma- terials ready to its ...
Page xvii
... hand , the play as there given is considerably abridged , and the omissions are such as to infer that they were made with a view to shorten the time of performance . As showing how much we are indebted to the quartos for the play as it ...
... hand , the play as there given is considerably abridged , and the omissions are such as to infer that they were made with a view to shorten the time of performance . As showing how much we are indebted to the quartos for the play as it ...
Page xx
... had seized the whole kingdom into their hands ; and the old king is put to sojourn with his eldest daughter , attended only by threescore knights . ar But they , in a short while grudged at as XX Introduction THE TRAGEDY OF.
... had seized the whole kingdom into their hands ; and the old king is put to sojourn with his eldest daughter , attended only by threescore knights . ar But they , in a short while grudged at as XX Introduction THE TRAGEDY OF.
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... hands . It was a work of very great popularity , and went through various editions before 1610. There were little need of saying so much about the thing here , but that it shows how widely the story was known when Shakespeare invested ...
... hands . It was a work of very great popularity , and went through various editions before 1610. There were little need of saying so much about the thing here , but that it shows how widely the story was known when Shakespeare invested ...
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Alack Albany better character Child Rowland cockney conj Cordelia Corn Cornwall daugh daughters death doth drama duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel filial folio follows Fool fortune France Gent give Gloster Glou Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Goneril and Regan grace hand hast hath heart Historia Britonum hither ISRAEL GOLLANCZ Kent King Lear King of France kingdom knave lady Lear's look lord madam master means mind nature ness never night noble nuncle Omitted Oswald passion pity play poor Poor Tom pray Prithee quartos Quartos.-I. G. Regan scene seems servant Shakespeare shame sister speak speech stand storm tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art tragedy traitor trumpet unnatural villain William Shakespeare words
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Page 85 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 102 - ... heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman outparamoured the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
Page 140 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 22 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base, base...
Page 8 - Tell me, my daughters, (Since now we will divest us, both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of State,) Which of you, shall we say, doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge).
Page 103 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on "s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Page 27 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 145 - Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life : what was thy cause ? — Adultery. — Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ? No : The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive ; for Gloster's bastard son Was kinder to his father, than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
Page 182 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, — look, — her lips, — Look there, look there ! [Dies.
Page 147 - Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? GLOUCESTER. Ay, sir. K. LEAR. And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority; a dog 's obeyed in office.