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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... Come not between the dragon and his wrath' (122), the king's most faithful servant, Kent, finds himself irrevocably banished with the same impetuous abruptness. Three scenes later, however, when Kent rejoins his liege lord in the guise ...
... Come not between the dragon and his wrath' (122), the king's most faithful servant, Kent, finds himself irrevocably banished with the same impetuous abruptness. Three scenes later, however, when Kent rejoins his liege lord in the guise ...
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... Come, unbutton here' (III.4.103–5). It is a remarkable moment, whose implications cut far deeper than Lear's prayer for the homeless and starving. The dramatist whose company was called the King's Men, and whose livelihood depended on ...
... Come, unbutton here' (III.4.103–5). It is a remarkable moment, whose implications cut far deeper than Lear's prayer for the homeless and starving. The dramatist whose company was called the King's Men, and whose livelihood depended on ...
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... Come not between the dragon and his wrath' to 'a dog's obeyed in office': Lear has travelled an immense distance at ... comes from the lips of a king? How can the moral refinement of those who rule provide the solution, when the fact of ...
... Come not between the dragon and his wrath' to 'a dog's obeyed in office': Lear has travelled an immense distance at ... comes from the lips of a king? How can the moral refinement of those who rule provide the solution, when the fact of ...
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... Come, let's away to prison. | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage' (V.3.7–9). Even the unbearable climax of the tragedy, when Lear enters with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies looking desperately for life in her lips, is ...
... Come, let's away to prison. | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage' (V.3.7–9). Even the unbearable climax of the tragedy, when Lear enters with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies looking desperately for life in her lips, is ...
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