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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... 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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... fall of kings and the deposition of the powerful in the tragedies of Richard III (1592–3), Richard II (1595) and Julius Caesar (1599). In one of his earliest plays, Titus Andronicus (1592), he had tackled the derangement and destruction ...
... fall of kings and the deposition of the powerful in the tragedies of Richard III (1592–3), Richard II (1595) and Julius Caesar (1599). In one of his earliest plays, Titus Andronicus (1592), he had tackled the derangement and destruction ...
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... by Shakespeare into the extraordinary Dover Cliff scene, in which Edgar fools Gloucester into falling from a purely imaginary precipice conjured out of words. In Arcadia, moreover, the father's death occurs only after.
... by Shakespeare into the extraordinary Dover Cliff scene, in which Edgar fools Gloucester into falling from a purely imaginary precipice conjured out of words. In Arcadia, moreover, the father's death occurs only after.
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... fall far from the tree is brought home with a vengeance to Lear, who acknowledges Gonerill to be 'a disease that's in my flesh, | Which I must needs call mine' (II.4.217–18). It would be sheer sentimentality, moreover, to pretend that ...
... fall far from the tree is brought home with a vengeance to Lear, who acknowledges Gonerill to be 'a disease that's in my flesh, | Which I must needs call mine' (II.4.217–18). It would be sheer sentimentality, moreover, to pretend that ...
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