King LearPenguin UK, 2005 M04 7 - 368 pages 'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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... The Faerie Queene (1590). From Spenser, indeed, he seems to have lifted the spelling of Cordelia's name and the idea that she died by hanging. But in all these versions, as in earlier renditions, the story ends with Lear.
... The Faerie Queene (1590). From Spenser, indeed, he seems to have lifted the spelling of Cordelia's name and the idea that she died by hanging. But in all these versions, as in earlier renditions, the story ends with Lear.
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... Cordelia lives on to meet her death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the ...
... Cordelia lives on to meet her death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the ...
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... Cordelia, while he continues to enjoy 'The name and all th'addition to a king' (I.1.136) without the responsibility. He demands, furthermore, that each daughter compete for the choicest third of the kingdom by declaring in public how ...
... Cordelia, while he continues to enjoy 'The name and all th'addition to a king' (I.1.136) without the responsibility. He demands, furthermore, that each daughter compete for the choicest third of the kingdom by declaring in public how ...
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... Cordelia and feels the first stirrings of derangement as the appalling implications of his folly dawn on him: 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!' (I.5.42). The second act soon confirms the Fool's prediction that Regan's ...
... Cordelia and feels the first stirrings of derangement as the appalling implications of his folly dawn on him: 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!' (I.5.42). The second act soon confirms the Fool's prediction that Regan's ...
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... Cordelia is reunited with shortly after this, the Lear who kneels to her for forgiveness, is a very different king from the irate tyrant who cast her off in the opening scene. Indeed, he no longer thinks of himself as a king at all and ...
... Cordelia is reunited with shortly after this, the Lear who kneels to her for forgiveness, is a very different king from the irate tyrant who cast her off in the opening scene. Indeed, he no longer thinks of himself as a king at all and ...
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