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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... hence, as the play conclusively illustrates. The paradoxical greatness of King Lear is carried through such uncompromising realisations. Awe and repulsion are not competing impulses. They derive from the same monumental bleakness of our ...
... to acknowledge him, that now I am brazed to't. KENT I cannot conceive you. GLOSTER Sir, this young fellow's. KENT Is this not your son, my lord? LEAR Hence, and avoid my sight! EDMUND Why brand they. 2 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
... Hence, and avoid my sight! — So be my grave my peace, as here I give Her father's heart from her! — Call France; — who stirs? Call Burgundy. — Cornwall and Albany, With my two daughters' dowers digest this third: Let pride, which she ...
... Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound Reverbs no hollowness. KING LEAR Kent, on thy life, no more. KENT My. LEAR Hence, and avoid my sight! EDMUND Why brand they us with base? with baseness? bastardy? 8 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
... hence, and banishment is here. [to CORDELIA] The 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 ...