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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... Fool. His greatest comic character, Falstaff, inhabits the history plays and Henry V ends with a marriage, while Henry VI, Part III, Richard II and Richard III culminate in the tragic deaths of their protagonists. Although in ...
... Fool. His greatest comic character, Falstaff, inhabits the history plays and Henry V ends with a marriage, while Henry VI, Part III, Richard II and Richard III culminate in the tragic deaths of their protagonists. Although in ...
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... Fool and Oswald; he inflated Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied in the storm scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he erased virtually every trace of his source's Christian vision, leaving his characters ...
... Fool and Oswald; he inflated Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied in the storm scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he erased virtually every trace of his source's Christian vision, leaving his characters ...
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... Fool points out, from an omnipotent ruler to 'an 0 without a figure' (I.4.188–9), his grandiloquent histrionics and prodigious curses cut no ice with those who perceive in him merely 'Lear's shadow' (227). He rails in vain against ...
... Fool points out, from an omnipotent ruler to 'an 0 without a figure' (I.4.188–9), his grandiloquent histrionics and prodigious curses cut no ice with those who perceive in him merely 'Lear's shadow' (227). He rails in vain against ...
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... Fool's prediction that Regan's reception of her father will more than match her sister's: 'She will taste as like this as a crab [i.e. a sour crab-apple] does to a crab' (I.5.18). The contempt she and Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by ...
... Fool's prediction that Regan's reception of her father will more than match her sister's: 'She will taste as like this as a crab [i.e. a sour crab-apple] does to a crab' (I.5.18). The contempt she and Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by ...
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... Fool's discomfort instead of his own, and ushers him into the hovel ahead of himself. Before he follows, however, Lear pauses to deliver this heartfelt prayer: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this ...
... Fool's discomfort instead of his own, and ushers him into the hovel ahead of himself. Before he follows, however, Lear pauses to deliver this heartfelt prayer: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this ...
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