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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... bring every facet of its fierce poetry to life upon the stage, while pedestrian productions are prone to shrink Shakespeare's titanic tragedy into an interminable domestic melodrama, leaking pathos from every pore. Yet it is also true ...
... bring every facet of its fierce poetry to life upon the stage, while pedestrian productions are prone to shrink Shakespeare's titanic tragedy into an interminable domestic melodrama, leaking pathos from every pore. Yet it is also true ...
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... bring his father to the top of the rock from which he intends to fling himself is also developed by Shakespeare into the extraordinary Dover Cliff scene, in which Edgar fools Gloucester into falling from a purely imaginary precipice ...
... bring his father to the top of the rock from which he intends to fling himself is also developed by Shakespeare into the extraordinary Dover Cliff scene, in which Edgar fools Gloucester into falling from a purely imaginary precipice ...
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... brings judgement upon him, to provoke the very suffering he bewails. To impute such convoluted psychological motives to Lear may seem far-fetched, but they find a striking parallel in the characterization of Edgar, which suggests that ...
... brings judgement upon him, to provoke the very suffering he bewails. To impute such convoluted psychological motives to Lear may seem far-fetched, but they find a striking parallel in the characterization of Edgar, which suggests that ...
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