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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... means of publication. The most frequently reprinted of his works were the non-dramatic poems – the erotic Venus and Adonis and the more moralistic The Rape of Lucrece. The Sonnets, which appeared in 1609, under his name but possibly ...
... means of publication. The most frequently reprinted of his works were the non-dramatic poems – the erotic Venus and Adonis and the more moralistic The Rape of Lucrece. The Sonnets, which appeared in 1609, under his name but possibly ...
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... means to murder him, and the latter is forced to flee in the guise of a demented beggar. The nobleman suffers the horror of being blinded following his betrayal by his bastard and, like the king, is turned out to wander in despair, at ...
... means to murder him, and the latter is forced to flee in the guise of a demented beggar. The nobleman suffers the horror of being blinded following his betrayal by his bastard and, like the king, is turned out to wander in despair, at ...
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... to be used again. Shakespeare's avidity for new or rare words is by no means confined to King Lear, but his raids on Harsnet and Florio converge with this play's palpable urge to reach beyond the limits of the language. Apart from.
... to be used again. Shakespeare's avidity for new or rare words is by no means confined to King Lear, but his raids on Harsnet and Florio converge with this play's palpable urge to reach beyond the limits of the language. Apart from.
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... means liberation from the relentless 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 ...
... means liberation from the relentless 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 ...
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