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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... Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he worked demanded, and which ...
... Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he worked demanded, and which ...
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... never have read him. They have inspired composers of songs, orchestral music and operas; painters and sculptors; poets, novelists and film-makers. Allusions to him appear in pop songs, in advertisements and in television shows. Some of ...
... never have read him. They have inspired composers of songs, orchestral music and operas; painters and sculptors; poets, novelists and film-makers. Allusions to him appear in pop songs, in advertisements and in television shows. Some of ...
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... never strike the mind confined to perusing it on the page. To see the tragedy transfigured on stage or screen by visionary directors such as Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev or Akira Kurosawa is to learn things about King Lear that cannot ...
... never strike the mind confined to perusing it on the page. To see the tragedy transfigured on stage or screen by visionary directors such as Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev or Akira Kurosawa is to learn things about King Lear that cannot ...
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... never used before, words such as 'goatish' (I.2.127), 'marble-hearted' (I.4.256), 'disnatured' (I.4.280) and 'handy-dandy' (IV.6.154), which stuck in his mind as he read, and cried out to be used again. Shakespeare's avidity for new or ...
... never used before, words such as 'goatish' (I.2.127), 'marble-hearted' (I.4.256), 'disnatured' (I.4.280) and 'handy-dandy' (IV.6.154), which stuck in his mind as he read, and cried out to be used again. Shakespeare's avidity for new or ...
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... never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (101–4) There is a steely glint of spite in these clinical words, whose truthfulness cannot disguise their barbed intent to wound. It is difficult to dismiss the inference that ...
... never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. (101–4) There is a steely glint of spite in these clinical words, whose truthfulness cannot disguise their barbed intent to wound. It is difficult to dismiss the inference that ...
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