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 and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund, came directly from another late Elizabethan work, the first edition of Sir Philip Sidney's prose romance Arcadia, published in 1590. Book II, Chapter 10 of Arcadia relates the story of the ...
... Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund, came directly from another late Elizabethan work, the first edition of Sir Philip Sidney's prose romance Arcadia, published in 1590. Book II, Chapter 10 of Arcadia relates the story of the ...
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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 asks, 'Is't not the King?' Lear replies sarcastically, 'Ay, every inch a king. | When I do stare see how the subject quakes' (IV.6.107–8). And his disenchantment does not stop there. Although you are blind, Lear says to ...
... Gloucester asks, 'Is't not the King?' Lear replies sarcastically, 'Ay, every inch a king. | When I do stare see how the subject quakes' (IV.6.107–8). And his disenchantment does not stop there. Although you are blind, Lear says to ...
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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 learn, and his own capacity for compassion expands as a result of witnessing the misery the king and his father must endure. When he drops the persona of Tom to lead Gloucester on after the Dover Cliff scene, he introduces ...
... Gloucester learn, and his own capacity for compassion expands as a result of witnessing the misery the king and his father must endure. When he drops the persona of Tom to lead Gloucester on after the Dover Cliff scene, he introduces ...
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