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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... justice offended against the dictates of neoclassicism. Some, such as The Tempest (changed by John Dryden and William Davenant in 1667 to suit contemporary taste), King Lear (to which Nahum Tate gave a happy ending in 1681) and Richard ...
... justice offended against the dictates of neoclassicism. Some, such as The Tempest (changed by John Dryden and William Davenant in 1667 to suit contemporary taste), King Lear (to which Nahum Tate gave a happy ending in 1681) and Richard ...
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... justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it. is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ...
... justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it. is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ...
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none; I'll able 'em. (151–69) From 'Come not between the dragon and his ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none; I'll able 'em. (151–69) From 'Come not between the dragon and his ...
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... justice to the play today. Yet it is also the domestic double tragedy of two fathers and their children, which has troubling home truths to tell about the family and about patriarchy that are not the sole preserve of royalty and the ...
... justice to the play today. Yet it is also the domestic double tragedy of two fathers and their children, which has troubling home truths to tell about the family and about patriarchy that are not the sole preserve of royalty and the ...
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... justice in the way Gonerill and Regan crush Lear by bargaining the number of his knights down to none. The minds that could stage such a ruthless Dutch auction are mirror-images of the mind that demanded a public reckoning of their love ...
... justice in the way Gonerill and Regan crush Lear by bargaining the number of his knights down to none. The minds that could stage such a ruthless Dutch auction are mirror-images of the mind that demanded a public reckoning of their love ...
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