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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... of Shakespeare's Works Introduction The Play in Performance Further Reading KING LEAR An Account of the Text Words for Music in King Lear Commentary Follow Penguin FOUNDING EDITOR: T. J. B. SPENCER GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY WELLS.
... of Shakespeare's Works Introduction The Play in Performance Further Reading KING LEAR An Account of the Text Words for Music in King Lear Commentary Follow Penguin FOUNDING EDITOR: T. J. B. SPENCER GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY WELLS.
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... performance Shakespeare's characters can give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of few of them (except for the English ...
... performance Shakespeare's characters can give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of few of them (except for the English ...
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... performance is demonstrated by the fact that only about half of his plays appeared in print in his lifetime, in slim paperback volumes known as quartos, so called because they were made from printers' sheets folded twice to form four ...
... performance is demonstrated by the fact that only about half of his plays appeared in print in his lifetime, in slim paperback volumes known as quartos, so called because they were made from printers' sheets folded twice to form four ...
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... performances resumed after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 many of the plays were not to the taste of the ... performance of the plays could render the original texts viable in terms of the modern theatre. During the twentieth ...
... performances resumed after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 many of the plays were not to the taste of the ... performance of the plays could render the original texts viable in terms of the modern theatre. During the twentieth ...
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... performance. In these volumes we offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further reading and information about how each work has been edited. In addition we include accounts ...
... performance. In these volumes we offer individual introductions, notes on language and on specific points of the text, suggestions for further reading and information about how each work has been edited. In addition we include accounts ...
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