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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... humanity, his psychological insight, his wit and humour, his lyricism, his mastery of language, his ability to excite, surprise, move and, in the ... human. Stanley Wells The Chronology of Shakespeare's Works A few of Shakespeare's writings.
... humanity, his psychological insight, his wit and humour, his lyricism, his mastery of language, his ability to excite, surprise, move and, in the ... human. Stanley Wells The Chronology of Shakespeare's Works A few of Shakespeare's writings.
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... human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair. These views of King Lear surrendered in turn in the 1980s to a new regime of politicized criticism, whose chief aim was to work out whether the play endorsed or ...
... human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair. These views of King Lear surrendered in turn in the 1980s to a new regime of politicized criticism, whose chief aim was to work out whether the play endorsed or ...
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... human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his own regime. Nor has Shakespeare finished with King Lear yet. The enforced enlightenment of the hapless monarch has only just begun. The sight of Edgar as Tom o'Bedlam ...
... human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his own regime. Nor has Shakespeare finished with King Lear yet. The enforced enlightenment of the hapless monarch has only just begun. The sight of Edgar as Tom o'Bedlam ...
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... human animals, and the shared needs, vulnerability and mortality that attend it, refute the rationale that divides us into the rulers and the ruled, the sated and the starving, making a mockery of hierarchy. Nor does the fact that Lear ...
... human animals, and the shared needs, vulnerability and mortality that attend it, refute the rationale that divides us into the rulers and the ruled, the sated and the starving, making a mockery of hierarchy. Nor does the fact that Lear ...
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... humanity, between the destructive imperatives of division and domination incarnate in a king, and the need for equality, compassion and community embodied by a naked beggar, cannot begin to do justice to the play today. Yet it is also ...
... humanity, between the destructive imperatives of division and domination incarnate in a king, and the need for equality, compassion and community embodied by a naked beggar, cannot begin to do justice to the play today. Yet it is also ...
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