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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... deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters can give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of ...
... deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters can give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of ...
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... death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters have met their deaths as well and the corpse of his devoted daughter, with whom he has just been reunited, lies cold in his arms. In a parallel plot a nobleman in the service ...
... death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters have met their deaths as well and the corpse of his devoted daughter, with whom he has just been reunited, lies cold in his arms. In a parallel plot a nobleman in the service ...
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... death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the result of a deliberate ...
... death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the result of a deliberate ...
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. words. In Arcadia, moreover, the father's death occurs only after his virtuous son has been enthroned in his place, while the latter forgives his villainous sibling on condition that he mend his ways ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. words. In Arcadia, moreover, the father's death occurs only after his virtuous son has been enthroned in his place, while the latter forgives his villainous sibling on condition that he mend his ways ...
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... him. From his punitive humiliation and protracted torment he reaps at the end of the play neither relief nor release, but only more intolerable pain and a pitiless death. At the start of his tragic journey, in the opening.
... him. From his punitive humiliation and protracted torment he reaps at the end of the play neither relief nor release, but only more intolerable pain and a pitiless death. At the start of his tragic journey, in the opening.
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