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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... hearts?' – he is posing a rhetorical question that the play genuinely addresses. Anatomy assists the play's moral scrutiny. Lear's belated realisation that he has been duped by false appearances, encourages him to reverse this, strip ...
... hearts?' – he is posing a rhetorical question that the play genuinely addresses. Anatomy assists the play's moral scrutiny. Lear's belated realisation that he has been duped by false appearances, encourages him to reverse this ...
... heart I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes too short, — that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys, Which the most precious square of sense possesses; And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love ...
... heart with this? CORDELIA Ay, good my lord. KING LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young, my lord, and true. KING LEAR Let it be so, — thy truth, then, be thy dower: For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of ...
... heart from her! — Call France; — who stirs? Call Burgundy. — Cornwall and Albany, With my two daughters' dowers digest this third: Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her. I do invest you jointly in my power, Pre-eminence, and ...