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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... hand. Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back. Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Thorough tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide ...
... hand. Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back. Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Thorough tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide ...
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... hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by Cornwall and Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so ...
... hands of Edmund, and leads to his eyes being gouged out by Cornwall and Regan. But, just as the metaphorical madness of Lear's actions in the opening scene mutates into the actual madness through which he acquires wisdom, so ...
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... hand, there is no reason to suppose that James and the aristocrats about him were any less adept at deflecting the implications of art away from themselves than the audiences of our own day are. Even so, to write and perform a play for ...
... hand, there is no reason to suppose that James and the aristocrats about him were any less adept at deflecting the implications of art away from themselves than the audiences of our own day are. Even so, to write and perform a play for ...
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... hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (101–4) There is a steely glint of spite in these clinical words, whose truthfulness ...
... hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (101–4) There is a steely glint of spite in these clinical words, whose truthfulness ...
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... hands. Lear's tragic agony as a victim of his own folly and filial ingratitude is seen as a smokescreen for what really drives the drama: the male desire not merely to supplant the mother and smother maternal urges, but to extirpate ...
... hands. Lear's tragic agony as a victim of his own folly and filial ingratitude is seen as a smokescreen for what really drives the drama: the male desire not merely to supplant the mother and smother maternal urges, but to extirpate ...
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