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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... less apparent, more ready to accommodate the rhythms of ordinary speech, more colloquial in diction, as in the speeches of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, the characterful prose of Falstaff and Hamlet's soliloquies. The effect is of ...
... less apparent, more ready to accommodate the rhythms of ordinary speech, more colloquial in diction, as in the speeches of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, the characterful prose of Falstaff and Hamlet's soliloquies. The effect is of ...
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... less circular structures, open to the air, with a thrust stage surmounted by a canopy and jutting into the area where spectators who paid one penny stood, and surrounded by galleries where it was possible to be seated on payment of an ...
... less circular structures, open to the air, with a thrust stage surmounted by a canopy and jutting into the area where spectators who paid one penny stood, and surrounded by galleries where it was possible to be seated on payment of an ...
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... less successful, perhaps because the vogue for sonnet sequences, which peaked in the 1590s, had passed by then. They were not reprinted until 1640, and then only in garbled form along with poems by other writers. Happily, in 1623, seven ...
... less successful, perhaps because the vogue for sonnet sequences, which peaked in the 1590s, had passed by then. They were not reprinted until 1640, and then only in garbled form along with poems by other writers. Happily, in 1623, seven ...
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... less, And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. (IV.7.60–63) Unlike the protagonist of King Leir, the last thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown ...
... less, And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. (IV.7.60–63) Unlike the protagonist of King Leir, the last thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown ...
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... less adept at deflecting the implications of art away from themselves than the audiences of our own day are. Even so, to write and perform a play for the monarch, in which a king spurns his royal robes as mere 'lendings', calls upon ...
... less adept at deflecting the implications of art away from themselves than the audiences of our own day are. Even so, to write and perform a play for the monarch, in which a king spurns his royal robes as mere 'lendings', calls upon ...
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