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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... 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 marooned in an ...
... 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 marooned in an ...
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... Oswald, and the frosty remonstrations of Gonerill herself. Having reduced himself through his own rashness, as the Fool points out, from an omnipotent ruler to 'an 0 without a figure' (I.4.188–9), his grandiloquent histrionics and ...
... Oswald, and the frosty remonstrations of Gonerill herself. Having reduced himself through his own rashness, as the Fool points out, from an omnipotent ruler to 'an 0 without a figure' (I.4.188–9), his grandiloquent histrionics and ...
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