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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... arms. In a parallel plot a nobleman in the service of the king is duped by his ruthless, illegitimate son into fearing that his legitimate son means to murder him, and the latter is forced to flee in the guise of a demented beggar. The ...
... arms. In a parallel plot a nobleman in the service of the king is duped by his ruthless, illegitimate son into fearing that his legitimate son means to murder him, and the latter is forced to flee in the guise of a demented beggar. The ...
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... arms of 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 ...
... arms of 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 ...
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... Arm it. is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? GLOUCESTER Ay, sir. LEAR And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. Thou rascal beadle, hold ...
... Arm it. is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? GLOUCESTER Ay, sir. LEAR And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. Thou rascal beadle, hold ...
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none; I'll able 'em. (151–69) From 'Come not between the dragon and his ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none; I'll able 'em. (151–69) From 'Come not between the dragon and his ...
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... with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies looking desperately for life in her lips, is clouded by the uneasy feeling that his quest to possess her has finally been fulfilled. The treatment meted out to the aged patriarch by 'his.
... with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies looking desperately for life in her lips, is clouded by the uneasy feeling that his quest to possess her has finally been fulfilled. The treatment meted out to the aged patriarch by 'his.
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