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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... 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 great moment and intractable complexity when he sat ...
... 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 great moment and intractable complexity when he sat ...
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. tragedies to his credit, and some of these plays clearly paved the way for King Lear. During the previous decade he had already explored the fall of kings and the deposition of the powerful in the ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. tragedies to his credit, and some of these plays clearly paved the way for King Lear. During the previous decade he had already explored the fall of kings and the deposition of the powerful in the ...
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... clearly encountered in Montaigne a kindred spirit, who would have understood his compulsion to force King Lear to the edge of the imaginable. 3 It is impossible to exaggerate the breathtaking boldness of the central idea of King Lear as ...
... clearly encountered in Montaigne a kindred spirit, who would have understood his compulsion to force King Lear to the edge of the imaginable. 3 It is impossible to exaggerate the breathtaking boldness of the central idea of King Lear as ...
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... clear that the tragedy has a bigger quarry than the king in its sights. Given the deaths not only of Lear, Cordelia and Gloucester but also of Gonerill, Regan, Edmund and Cornwall, not to mention the presumed death of the Fool and the ...
... clear that the tragedy has a bigger quarry than the king in its sights. Given the deaths not only of Lear, Cordelia and Gloucester but also of Gonerill, Regan, Edmund and Cornwall, not to mention the presumed death of the Fool and the ...
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... clear-cut. Lear is 'a very foolish fond old man', the victim of 'Filial ingratitude' (III.4.14), who is 'More sinned against than sinning' (III.2.59); Gonerill and Regan swiftly reveal themselves to be pitiless predators, 'Tigers not ...
... clear-cut. Lear is 'a very foolish fond old man', the victim of 'Filial ingratitude' (III.4.14), who is 'More sinned against than sinning' (III.2.59); Gonerill and Regan swiftly reveal themselves to be pitiless predators, 'Tigers not ...
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