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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... fear of what lurks at the heart of the family, in the sacrosanct bond between parent and child. Timon of Athens (1605), the bizarre, abortive tragedy that Shakespeare was working on around the same time as he was writing King Lear ...
... fear of what lurks at the heart of the family, in the sacrosanct bond between parent and child. Timon of Athens (1605), the bizarre, abortive tragedy that Shakespeare was working on around the same time as he was writing King Lear ...
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... fear I am not in my perfect mind. (IV.7.60–63) Unlike the protagonist of King Leir, the last thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown. When he and Cordelia are captured ...
... fear I am not in my perfect mind. (IV.7.60–63) Unlike the protagonist of King Leir, the last thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown. When he and Cordelia are captured ...
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... fear of what they can expect from 'the infirmity of his age' as well as 'the imperfections of long-ingraffed condition' (292, 296) entirely justifiable. Their vindictive humiliation of their father is obviously not justifiable, but ...
... fear of what they can expect from 'the infirmity of his age' as well as 'the imperfections of long-ingraffed condition' (292, 296) entirely justifiable. Their vindictive humiliation of their father is obviously not justifiable, but ...
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... fear that his true feelings for his father merited his father's mistrust. As for Gloucester, his mortification at ... fears the feminine tears that would impugn his masculinity: 'let not women's weapons, water drops, | Stain my man's ...
... fear that his true feelings for his father merited his father's mistrust. As for Gloucester, his mortification at ... fears the feminine tears that would impugn his masculinity: 'let not women's weapons, water drops, | Stain my man's ...
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