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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... Dover in King Lear. Like Edgar, too, Leonatus frustrates his father's plan to commit suicide by plunging headlong to his death from a great height, and his father dies later instead, his heart torn between sorrow and joy, exactly as ...
... Dover in King Lear. Like Edgar, too, Leonatus frustrates his father's plan to commit suicide by plunging headlong to his death from a great height, and his father dies later instead, his heart torn between sorrow and joy, exactly as ...
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... Dover: 'I have no way and therefore want no eyes; | I stumbled when I saw' (IV.1.18–19). Like Lear's derangement, Gloucester's traumatic blinding dislocates him from the culture that has shaped his assumptions and values. His speech to ...
... Dover: 'I have no way and therefore want no eyes; | I stumbled when I saw' (IV.1.18–19). Like Lear's derangement, Gloucester's traumatic blinding dislocates him from the culture that has shaped his assumptions and values. His speech to ...
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... Dover Cliff scene, he introduces himself to his father afresh as 'A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, | Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, | Am pregnant to good pity' (IV.6.221–3). Unlike Gloucester and Lear, of ...
... Dover Cliff scene, he introduces himself to his father afresh as 'A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, | Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, | Am pregnant to good pity' (IV.6.221–3). Unlike Gloucester and Lear, of ...
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