King LearPan Macmillan, 2016 M08 11 - 208 pages In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. |
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... Edmund ironically exposes through his scheming. When Cornwall praises Edmund as a 'Loyal and natural boy' for exposing his brother's supposed treachery, the irony is complete. Nature, often appealed to, constantly confused or ...
... Edmund thinks not: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity; ... drunkards, liars, and ...
... Edmund ironically exposes through his scheming. When Cornwall praises Edmund as a 'Loyal and natural boy' for exposing his brother's supposed treachery, the irony is complete. Nature, often appealed to, constantly confused or ...
... Edmund defiantly declares: 'The young must rise, as the old must fall' he is proclaiming his villainy, but also simply stating a universal law, dictated by his patron Nature and ruling every species in creation. 'We came crying hither ...