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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... 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' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is ...
... 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' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is ...
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... Regan and Cordelia, while he continues to enjoy 'The name and all th'addition to a king' (I.1.136) without the responsibility. He demands, furthermore, that each daughter compete for the choicest third of the kingdom by declaring in ...
... Regan and Cordelia, while he continues to enjoy 'The name and all th'addition to a king' (I.1.136) without the responsibility. He demands, furthermore, that each daughter compete for the choicest third of the kingdom by declaring in ...
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... 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 putting his messenger ...
... 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 putting his messenger ...
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... Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of dominion is complete. When 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) ...
... Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of dominion is complete. When 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) ...
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... Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so Gloucester's blindness to the true nature of his sons morphs into the real ...
... Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so Gloucester's blindness to the true nature of his sons morphs into the real ...
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