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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... matters at the outset intrudes between the reader and the play, muffling its immediate impact on us and obstructing our engagement with the only questions that really count: what is King Lear about and why does it matter? This ...
... matters at the outset intrudes between the reader and the play, muffling its immediate impact on us and obstructing our engagement with the only questions that really count: what is King Lear about and why does it matter? This ...
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... matters of great moment and intractable complexity when he sat down to write King Lear is impossible to say. Circumstantial evidence suggests that he penned the play somewhere between late 1605 and early 1606. So we do know that he was ...
... matters of great moment and intractable complexity when he sat down to write King Lear is impossible to say. Circumstantial evidence suggests that he penned the play somewhere between late 1605 and early 1606. So we do know that he was ...
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... matter and impertinency mixed, | Reason in madness!' (IV.6.175–6): LEAR What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change ...
... matter and impertinency mixed, | Reason in madness!' (IV.6.175–6): LEAR What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change ...
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... matters is anything but unwitting. Edgar sums up his kinship with the king succinctly: 'He childed as I fathered' (III.6.108). The title page of the 1608 Quarto underlines their affinity by giving second billing, after the life and ...
... matters is anything but unwitting. Edgar sums up his kinship with the king succinctly: 'He childed as I fathered' (III.6.108). The title page of the 1608 Quarto underlines their affinity by giving second billing, after the life and ...
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actors ALBANY arms bastard beggar Burgundy Cordelia Cornwall daughters death dost Dover Dr Johnson Duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Edmund Elizabethan Enter Edgar Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes F reading father fear feel Folio follow Fool Fool’s fortune foul fiend France GENTLEMAN give Gloucester’s gods Gonerill Gonerill and Regan grace Harsnet’s hast hath heart Henry VI honour i’the justice KENT Kent’s King Lear kingdom knave knights Lear’s letter look lord madam man’s matter means nature noble nuncle o’er o’the omitted Oswald perhaps poor Poor Tom Pray presumably prose in Q Q and F Q corrected Quarto Regan Richard III scene seems sense servant Shakespeare Shakespeare’s plays sister speak speech stand storm sword tears theatrical thee There’s thine things Titus Andronicus Tom’s tragedy trumpet villain Who’s Winter’s Tale words wretches