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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... Cornwall enlists to describe the aged arms of Gloucester as he commands him to be bound (III.7.29); the word 'ruffle' in Gloucester's rebuke to Regan later in the same scene: 'my hospitable favours | You should not ruffle thus' (40–41); ...
... Cornwall enlists to describe the aged arms of Gloucester as he commands him to be bound (III.7.29); the word 'ruffle' in Gloucester's rebuke to Regan later in the same scene: 'my hospitable favours | You should not ruffle thus' (40–41); ...
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... Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to whittle his retinue of knights down to zero ('What need one?' (II.4.258)), push the old king over the edge. Devastated ...
... Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to whittle his retinue of knights down to zero ('What need one?' (II.4.258)), push the old king over the edge. Devastated ...
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... Cornwall and Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so Gloucester's blindness to the true nature of his sons morphs into the ...
... Cornwall and Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so Gloucester's blindness to the true nature of his sons morphs into the ...
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... Cornwall, not to mention the presumed death of the Fool and the imminent death of Kent, it is as if an entire dispensation has been undone and destroyed. We know that in 1606 King Lear 'was played before the King's Majesty at Whitehall ...
... Cornwall, not to mention the presumed death of the Fool and the imminent death of Kent, it is as if an entire dispensation has been undone and destroyed. We know that in 1606 King Lear 'was played before the King's Majesty at Whitehall ...
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