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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... character, Falstaff, inhabits the history plays and Henry V ends with a marriage, while Henry VI, Part III, Richard II and Richard III culminate in the tragic deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters ...
... character, Falstaff, inhabits the history plays and Henry V ends with a marriage, while Henry VI, Part III, Richard II and Richard III culminate in the tragic deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters ...
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... characters – Romeo and Juliet, Falstaff, Shylock and Hamlet – have acquired mythic status. He is valued for his humanity, his psychological insight, his wit and humour, his lyricism, his mastery of language, his ability to excite ...
... characters – Romeo and Juliet, Falstaff, Shylock and Hamlet – have acquired mythic status. He is valued for his humanity, his psychological insight, his wit and humour, his lyricism, his mastery of language, his ability to excite ...
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... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817). 'All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it. To attempt to give a description of the play itself or of its effect upon the mind, is mere ...
... Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817). 'All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it. To attempt to give a description of the play itself or of its effect upon the mind, is mere ...
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... characters are dead, and the dazed survivors see no clear way forward. The effect of Shakespeare's transmutation of this story into tragedy, however, is anything but simple. Whether he knew that he was about to grapple with matters of ...
... characters are dead, and the dazed survivors see no clear way forward. The effect of Shakespeare's transmutation of this story into tragedy, however, is anything but simple. Whether he knew that he was about to grapple with matters of ...
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... characters, including, most notably, the Fool and Oswald; he inflated Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied ... character surviving. Shakespeare's King Lear concludes in unmitigated tragedy, with the shattered sovereign, all ...
... characters, including, most notably, the Fool and Oswald; he inflated Lear's folly into full-blown madness and supplied ... character surviving. Shakespeare's King Lear concludes in unmitigated tragedy, with the shattered sovereign, all ...
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