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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... gods', as Gloster's famous line has it. 'They kill us for their sport'. The play's animalism reaches a climax in Lear's misogynistic tirade in Act IV. Behold yond simpering dame, Whose face between her forks presages snow; That minces ...
... gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit... . This is the terrifying vision of mortality with which the play confronts us. It may only be Lear's madness that discourages us ...
... gods in vain. KING LEAR O, vassal! miscreant! [Laying his hand on his sword. ALBANY and CORNWALL Dear sir, forbear. KENT Do; Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom; Or, whilst I can vent clamour ...
... gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!. [to REGAN and GONERIL] And your large speeches may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love. Thus Kent, O princes ...
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