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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... beggar. The nobleman suffers the horror of being blinded following his betrayal by his bastard and, like the king, is turned out to wander in despair, at the mercy of the elements. Death finally terminates his suffering too, after he ...
... beggar. The nobleman suffers the horror of being blinded following his betrayal by his bastard and, like the king, is turned out to wander in despair, at the mercy of the elements. Death finally terminates his suffering too, after he ...
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... beggar's rags. Lear's prayer on the threshold of the hovel presupposes the same stratified society, in which 'pomp' would persist, but would treat those at its mercy with greater sympathy and generosity. But when Lear tears off his ...
... beggar's rags. Lear's prayer on the threshold of the hovel presupposes the same stratified society, in which 'pomp' would persist, but would treat those at its mercy with greater sympathy and generosity. But when Lear tears off his ...
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... 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 thy bloody hand. Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own ...
... 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 thy bloody hand. Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own ...
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... beggar, the tragedy of an earl who perceives that 'distribution should undo excess | And each man have enough' (IV.1.69–70), has more to say than ever. 4 But that is far from being all it has to say. Any account of King Lear that fails ...
... beggar, the tragedy of an earl who perceives that 'distribution should undo excess | And each man have enough' (IV.1.69–70), has more to say than ever. 4 But that is far from being all it has to say. Any account of King Lear that fails ...
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