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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... 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, centres likewise on a man of ...
... 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, centres likewise on a man of ...
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... heart torn between sorrow and joy, exactly as Gloucester does in Edgar's report of his passing: But his flawed heart – Alack, too weak the conflict to support – 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly. (V.3.194–7) ...
... heart torn between sorrow and joy, exactly as Gloucester does in Edgar's report of his passing: But his flawed heart – Alack, too weak the conflict to support – 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly. (V.3.194–7) ...
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... heart and me Hold thee from this for ever. (I.1.109–16) Minutes later, having failed to heed Lear's equally bombastic warning 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath' (122), the king's most faithful servant, Kent, finds himself ...
... heart and me Hold thee from this for ever. (I.1.109–16) Minutes later, having failed to heed Lear's equally bombastic warning 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath' (122), the king's most faithful servant, Kent, finds himself ...
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... heart-stopping reconciliation of 'this child-changèd father' (IV.7.17) with Cordelia, whom he begs to 'forget and forgive' (83–4), Lear's attitude to his dearest daughter remains uncomfortably exclusive, indeed just as proprietorial as ...
... heart-stopping reconciliation of 'this child-changèd father' (IV.7.17) with Cordelia, whom he begs to 'forget and forgive' (83–4), Lear's attitude to his dearest daughter remains uncomfortably exclusive, indeed just as proprietorial as ...
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... hearts. The truth of the old saying that the fruit does not fall far from the tree is brought home with a vengeance to ... heart into my mouth' (91–2), she becomes without question a living symbol of the 'better way' that lies beyond the ...
... hearts. The truth of the old saying that the fruit does not fall far from the tree is brought home with a vengeance to ... heart into my mouth' (91–2), she becomes without question a living symbol of the 'better way' that lies beyond the ...
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