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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... storm, Lear identifies with the poor naked wretches supposedly represented by 'Poor Tom': Is man no more than this? ... Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. — ... Thou art the thing ...
... Storms of Fortune are decreed) / That Truth and Virtue shall at last succeed'. Thus for a hundred and fifty years playgoers were served the poetic justice that Shakespeare's carnage and cruelty so wantonly withholds. In 1811 the ...
... storm, Lear identifies with the poor naked wretches supposedly represented by 'Poor Tom': Is man no more than this? ... Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. — ... Thou art the thing ...
... storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ...
... storm, made to feel what wretches feel, Lear relentlessly exposes the falseness and corruption to which flattery and ceremony had blinded him. (There is no escape from irony in this play; Lear learns to expose imposture and discern ...