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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... lived in Stratford till after his marriage to Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, in 1582. They had three children: a daughter, Susanna, born in 1583 within six months of their marriage, and twins, Hamnet and Judith, born.
... lived in Stratford till after his marriage to Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, in 1582. They had three children: a daughter, Susanna, born in 1583 within six months of their marriage, and twins, Hamnet and Judith, born.
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... daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there were almost none that we know of in the rest of the ...
... daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there were almost none that we know of in the rest of the ...
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... daughter who loves him, and his misplaced trust in her malevolent sisters, strips him of his power and strands him in a wasteland of anguish and insanity. From this plight death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters ...
... daughter who loves him, and his misplaced trust in her malevolent sisters, strips him of his power and strands him in a wasteland of anguish and insanity. From this plight death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters ...
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... daughter. More recently, in Hamlet (1600–1601), the first of the great, mature tragedies, he had transmuted tragedy itself into a form flexible enough to sustain the fearless philosophical speculation that electrifies King Lear. Othello ...
... daughter. More recently, in Hamlet (1600–1601), the first of the great, mature tragedies, he had transmuted tragedy itself into a form flexible enough to sustain the fearless philosophical speculation that electrifies King Lear. Othello ...
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... daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, but which had been performed over a decade earlier in 1594, by a cast that may have included Shakespeare himself. To this narrative Shakespeare made a number of crucial alterations and additions ...
... daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, but which had been performed over a decade earlier in 1594, by a cast that may have included Shakespeare himself. To this narrative Shakespeare made a number of crucial alterations and additions ...
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