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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... scenes again when he edited it for his collected Plays of 1765. He was not alone in his squeamishness. In Johnson's day the play was performed with a happy ending, a convention established in 1681 when Nathum Tate 'improved ...
... scene to last. A ruler relinquishes his power, then suffers because he refuses to be ruled. The favourite daughter becomes the most hated, banished for speaking truth. A father becomes like a 'babe again', taught lessons by his ...
... scenes of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy. Bleakest, but perhaps his most universal. Unaccommodated man is a political emblem, affording wisdom to a king who realises too late he has taken too little account of such things – a perennial ...
... to Cornwall. GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA,. } daughters to Lear. KNIGHTS attending on Lear, OFFICERS, MESSENGERS, SOLDIERS, and ATTENDANTS. SCENE — Britain. ACT I SCENE I KING LEAR'S palace. Enter KENT, GLOSTER, 1 KING LEAR.
William Shakespeare. ACT. I. SCENE I KING LEAR'S palace. Enter KENT, GLOSTER, and EDMUND. KENT I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOSTER It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the ...