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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... 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); and Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio ...
... 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); and Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio ...
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... Gloucester, 'you see how this world goes', and Gloucester's response, 'I see it feelingly' (IV.6.148– 50), unleashes this stunning speech, which Edgar's subsequent aside prompts us to hear as 'matter and impertinency mixed, | Reason in ...
... Gloucester, 'you see how this world goes', and Gloucester's response, 'I see it feelingly' (IV.6.148– 50), unleashes this stunning speech, which Edgar's subsequent aside prompts us to hear as 'matter and impertinency mixed, | Reason in ...
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... Gloucester's story describe the same arc of agony, insight and oblivion. Gloucester's folly is the credulity that severs him from Edgar, places him in the hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by Cornwall and Regan ...
... Gloucester's story describe the same arc of agony, insight and oblivion. Gloucester's folly is the credulity that severs him from Edgar, places him in the hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by Cornwall and Regan ...
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... Gloucester, his mortification at the blame he must shoulder for the fate of his sons and himself dogs him to the grave. To expose the antagonisms that conspire in the tragedy of Lear's and Gloucester's families is not to dispute the ...
... Gloucester, his mortification at the blame he must shoulder for the fate of his sons and himself dogs him to the grave. To expose the antagonisms that conspire in the tragedy of Lear's and Gloucester's families is not to dispute the ...
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