King LearMethuen, 1985 - 246 pages |
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Page xlvii
... tragedy of parents and children , of pride and ingratitude : it is also a tragedy of kingship . Power corrupts not 1. The Principles of Art , 1938 , p . 295 . 2. M. Bodkin , Archetypal Patterns in Poetry , 1934 , pp . 15–16 . 3. In The ...
... tragedy of parents and children , of pride and ingratitude : it is also a tragedy of kingship . Power corrupts not 1. The Principles of Art , 1938 , p . 295 . 2. M. Bodkin , Archetypal Patterns in Poetry , 1934 , pp . 15–16 . 3. In The ...
Page li
... Tragedies was necessarily a pessimist . Heroes of Romances survive ; heroes of Tragedies usually die . Nor is the world of the tragedies , the world of King Lear in particular , ex- clusively evil . In the other scale we have to put the ...
... Tragedies was necessarily a pessimist . Heroes of Romances survive ; heroes of Tragedies usually die . Nor is the world of the tragedies , the world of King Lear in particular , ex- clusively evil . In the other scale we have to put the ...
Page 87
... Tragedy , IV . iii . 172 , and in Ford , The Broken Heart . II . i . Kellett , Suggestions , p . 40 , remarks that ' the curse gains greatly in mean- ing if we assume that Shakespeare's Lear , like the old playwright's Leir , knew or ...
... Tragedy , IV . iii . 172 , and in Ford , The Broken Heart . II . i . Kellett , Suggestions , p . 40 , remarks that ' the curse gains greatly in mean- ing if we assume that Shakespeare's Lear , like the old playwright's Leir , knew or ...
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