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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... nature's mercy in a wilderness, where his exiled daughter is at last restored to him; in both plays, too, a good son is compelled by the malice of his brother to flee into the same inhospitable domain, where he cares for a vulnerable ...
... nature's mercy in a wilderness, where his exiled daughter is at last restored to him; in both plays, too, a good son is compelled by the malice of his brother to flee into the same inhospitable domain, where he cares for a vulnerable ...
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... natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the result of a deliberate decision by the playwright to confound the ...
... natural demise. The brutal, comfortless denouement that Shakespeare inflicts on his audience is without precedent in the transmission of the tale, and plainly the result of a deliberate decision by the playwright to confound the ...
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... nature of man to the nature of beasts in his 'Apologie of Raymond Sebond' – the echoes of the latter as Lear contemplates Poor Tom in the storm are unmistakable. But the tragedy may well owe a subtler, pervasive debt to Montaigne's ...
... nature of man to the nature of beasts in his 'Apologie of Raymond Sebond' – the echoes of the latter as Lear contemplates Poor Tom in the storm are unmistakable. But the tragedy may well owe a subtler, pervasive debt to Montaigne's ...
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... Nature to 'convey sterility' into his eldest daughter's womb and 'Dry up in her the organs of increase' (275–6) only underscores his impotence. Before Act I is over he realizes that he has wronged Cordelia and feels the first stirrings ...
... Nature to 'convey sterility' into his eldest daughter's womb and 'Dry up in her the organs of increase' (275–6) only underscores his impotence. Before Act I is over he realizes that he has wronged Cordelia and feels the first stirrings ...
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... nature. On the contrary: our shared physical constitution as human animals, and the shared needs, vulnerability and mortality that attend it, refute the rationale that divides us into the rulers and the ruled, the sated and the starving ...
... nature. On the contrary: our shared physical constitution as human animals, and the shared needs, vulnerability and mortality that attend it, refute the rationale that divides us into the rulers and the ruled, the sated and the starving ...
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