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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... us and obstructing our engagement with the only questions that really count: what is King Lear about and why does it matter? This introduction proposes, therefore, to confront the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this.
... us and obstructing our engagement with the only questions that really count: what is King Lear about and why does it matter? This introduction proposes, therefore, to confront the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this.
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this edition, with the minimum preamble. Its aim is to address the issues that King Lear raises, and the problems that it poses, as they emerge from ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. the play head-on, as the reader encounters it in this edition, with the minimum preamble. Its aim is to address the issues that King Lear raises, and the problems that it poses, as they emerge from ...
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... head, and compelled to 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 ...
... head, and compelled to 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 ...
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... heads out into the gathering storm 'To wage against the enmity o'th'air, | To be a comrade with the wolf and owl' and feel 'Necessity's sharp pinch' (204–6). His parting fulmination against the 'unnatural hags' (273) he has nurtured ...
... heads out into the gathering storm 'To wage against the enmity o'th'air, | To be a comrade with the wolf and owl' and feel 'Necessity's sharp pinch' (204–6). His parting fulmination against the 'unnatural hags' (273) he has nurtured ...
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... heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the ...
... heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the ...
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