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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... kind of drama to another. Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he ...
... kind of drama to another. Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he ...
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... 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 furred gowns hide all. Plate sins with gold,
... 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 furred gowns hide all. Plate sins with gold,
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... kind nursery' (I.1.124) of Cordelia for the rest of his days. His public trial of his daughters' love betrays not only his monumental vanity, but also his view of the love between parent and child as a commodity that can be quantified ...
... kind nursery' (I.1.124) of Cordelia for the rest of his days. His public trial of his daughters' love betrays not only his monumental vanity, but also his view of the love between parent and child as a commodity that can be quantified ...
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... kind father, whose frank heart gave all' (III.4.20) is not untrue, nor is the compassion that Edgar and Cordelia show for their fathers faked. To Cordelia's uncompromising mind, 'Love's not love | When it is mingled with regards that ...
... kind father, whose frank heart gave all' (III.4.20) is not untrue, nor is the compassion that Edgar and Cordelia show for their fathers faked. To Cordelia's uncompromising mind, 'Love's not love | When it is mingled with regards that ...
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