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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... hold. For some, this meant treating the tragedy as a grim witness to the absurdity of life in a heartless universe; for others, it meant hailing it as proof that human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair ...
... hold. For some, this meant treating the tragedy as a grim witness to the absurdity of life in a heartless universe; for others, it meant hailing it as proof that human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair ...
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... 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 irrevocably ...
... 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 irrevocably ...
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... hold thy bloody 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 ...
... hold thy bloody 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 ...
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