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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... Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the Greek writer Plutarch, finely translated into English from the French by Sir Thomas North in 1579, provided much of the narrative material, and also a mass of verbal detail, for his plays ...
... Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the Greek writer Plutarch, finely translated into English from the French by Sir Thomas North in 1579, provided much of the narrative material, and also a mass of verbal detail, for his plays ...
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... lives on to meet her death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement ... live by begging, the blind king is discovered and led on his way by Leonatus, just as Edgar leads his blind father ...
... lives on to meet her death much later, years after her father's natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement ... live by begging, the blind king is discovered and led on his way by Leonatus, just as Edgar leads his blind father ...
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... powerstruggles of the court, which he now views with Olympian bemusement: ... so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too.
... powerstruggles of the court, which he now views with Olympian bemusement: ... so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too.
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... lives of Lear, Gloucester and Kent, who retire to a 'cool Cell' to ruminate in peace on 'Fortunes past'. Tate's aim was, in his own words, 'to rectify what was wanting in the regularity and probability of the tale', by constraining it ...
... lives of Lear, Gloucester and Kent, who retire to a 'cool Cell' to ruminate in peace on 'Fortunes past'. Tate's aim was, in his own words, 'to rectify what was wanting in the regularity and probability of the tale', by constraining it ...
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... live to see thee in my touch I'd say I had eyes again. (IV.1.21–4) Edgar continues to deny his remorseful father the solace that is in his gift right up to the latter's death, which is triggered by the shock of his son's belated ...
... live to see thee in my touch I'd say I had eyes again. (IV.1.21–4) Edgar continues to deny his remorseful father the solace that is in his gift right up to the latter's death, which is triggered by the shock of his son's belated ...
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