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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... Lear. Othello (1603–4), written a couple of years before Lear, and the play he wrote immediately after it, Macbeth (1606), saw Shakespeare probing further into the darkest reaches of domestic intimacy opened up by Hamlet, which shares ...
... Lear. Othello (1603–4), written a couple of years before Lear, and the play he wrote immediately after it, Macbeth (1606), saw Shakespeare probing further into the darkest reaches of domestic intimacy opened up by Hamlet, which shares ...
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... Lear had been brewing in its author's mind, and how deeply rooted the concerns of the play must have been to make him ... Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied in the storm scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he ...
... Lear had been brewing in its author's mind, and how deeply rooted the concerns of the play must have been to make him ... Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied in the storm scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he ...
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... Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is likewise indebted for a clutch of idiosyncratic words that he had never used before, words such as ...
... Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is likewise indebted for a clutch of idiosyncratic words that he had never used before, words such as ...
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... Lear's countenance that Kent 'would fain call master' (I.4.28) is already on the wane. Divested of both property and power, Lear must endure the insolence of Gonerill's servant, Oswald, and the frosty remonstrations of Gonerill herself ...
... Lear's countenance that Kent 'would fain call master' (I.4.28) is already on the wane. Divested of both property and power, Lear must endure the insolence of Gonerill's servant, Oswald, and the frosty remonstrations of Gonerill herself ...
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... Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to whittle his retinue of knights down to zero ('What need one?' (II.4.258)), push the old king over the edge. Devastated by his daughters ...
... Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to whittle his retinue of knights down to zero ('What need one?' (II.4.258)), push the old king over the edge. Devastated by his daughters ...
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