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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... thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, fork'd animal as thou art. — Off, off, you lendings! — Come, unbutton here. Lear is dealt a lesson in humility and humanity, and thence forth human kinship replaces ...
... .. Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, fork'd animal as thou art. — Off, off, you lendings! — Come, unbutton here. Lear is dealt a lesson in humility and humanity, and x INTRODUCTION.
... wretches obliterates his regal identity by turning him into a universal emblem of tragic debasement. The thing itself alone on this tragic 'stage of fools'. Lear gains knowledge through his suffering. That he is not xi INTRODUCTION.
... thing itself', stripping humanity bare in some of the starkest scenes of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy. Bleakest ... things – a perennial lesson to rulers the world over. But its emblematic emphasis transcends its political purpose ...
... thing so monstrous, to dismantle So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason ...