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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... Edgar leads his blind father, Gloucester, on the road to 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 ...
... Edgar leads his blind father, Gloucester, on the road to 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 ...
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... Edgar mortally wound Edmund, and that he denies both the dying Gloucester and the audience the certain knowledge that Edgar will reign after Lear, is further evidence of his desire to deepen the darkness of the tragedy by snuffing out ...
... Edgar mortally wound Edmund, and that he denies both the dying Gloucester and the audience the certain knowledge that Edgar will reign after Lear, is further evidence of his desire to deepen the darkness of the tragedy by snuffing out ...
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... Edgar joined him to arraign an invisible Gonerill and Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of dominion is complete. When Gloucester asks, 'Is't not the King?' Lear replies sarcastically, 'Ay, every inch a king. | When ...
... Edgar joined him to arraign an invisible Gonerill and Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of dominion is complete. When Gloucester asks, 'Is't not the King?' Lear replies sarcastically, 'Ay, every inch a king. | When ...
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... Edgar, places him in the hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by 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 ...
... Edgar, places him in the hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by 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 ...
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... Edgar and, to a lesser degree, Kent undergo transmutations that mirror those inflicted on the former's father and the latter's master. Having lost his identity like Lear ('Edgar I nothing am' (II.3.21)), Edgar adopts 'the basest and ...
... Edgar and, to a lesser degree, Kent undergo transmutations that mirror those inflicted on the former's father and the latter's master. Having lost his identity like Lear ('Edgar I nothing am' (II.3.21)), Edgar adopts 'the basest and ...
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