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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... feeling. Towards the end of his career, in plays such as The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, he adopts a more highly mannered style, in keeping with the more overtly symbolical and emblematical mode in which he is writing. So ...
... feeling. Towards the end of his career, in plays such as The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, he adopts a more highly mannered style, in keeping with the more overtly symbolical and emblematical mode in which he is writing. So ...
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... feel what the poor, naked wretches of his kingdom feel: hunger, cold and despair. A ruler who regards himself as divinely appointed to command and be obeyed is disobeyed by his own daughters, and driven as a consequence out of his mind ...
... feel what the poor, naked wretches of his kingdom feel: hunger, cold and despair. A ruler who regards himself as divinely appointed to command and be obeyed is disobeyed by his own daughters, and driven as a consequence out of his mind ...
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... feels the first stirrings of derangement as the appalling implications of his folly dawn on him: 'O let me not be mad ... feel 'Necessity's sharp pinch' (204–6). His parting fulmination against the 'unnatural hags' (273) he has nurtured ...
... feels the first stirrings of derangement as the appalling implications of his folly dawn on him: 'O let me not be mad ... feel 'Necessity's sharp pinch' (204–6). His parting fulmination against the 'unnatural hags' (273) he has nurtured ...
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... feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (III.4.28–36) The capricious ... feels compassion for the most despised of his fellow human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his ...
... feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (III.4.28–36) The capricious ... feels compassion for the most despised of his fellow human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his ...
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... feel, feel your power quickly! So distribution should undo excess And each man have enough. (IV.1.63–70) The trauma of sudden dislocation and degradation is not restricted.
... feel, feel your power quickly! So distribution should undo excess And each man have enough. (IV.1.63–70) The trauma of sudden dislocation and degradation is not restricted.
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