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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... effect is of increasing psychological realism, reaching its greatest heights in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Gradually he discovered ways of adapting the regular beat of the pentameter to make it an ...
... effect is of increasing psychological realism, reaching its greatest heights in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Gradually he discovered ways of adapting the regular beat of the pentameter to make it an ...
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... effects such as flourishes of trumpets, music both martial and amorous, and accompaniments to songs were provided by the company's musicians. Actors entered through doors in the back wall of the stage. Above it was a balconied area that ...
... effects such as flourishes of trumpets, music both martial and amorous, and accompaniments to songs were provided by the company's musicians. Actors entered through doors in the back wall of the stage. Above it was a balconied area that ...
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... 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 impertinence.' And a few years Introduction.
... 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 impertinence.' And a few years Introduction.
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... effect be fully realized: 'the Lear of Shakespeare', he concluded, 'cannot be acted', because it is 'essentially impossible to be represented on a stage'. Fortunately, theatre directors and acting companies from Lamb's time to our own ...
... effect be fully realized: 'the Lear of Shakespeare', he concluded, 'cannot be acted', because it is 'essentially impossible to be represented on a stage'. Fortunately, theatre directors and acting companies from Lamb's time to our own ...
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... 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 down to write King Lear ...
... 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 down to write King Lear ...
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