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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... scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he erased virtually every trace of his source's Christian vision, leaving his characters marooned in an altogether bleaker, pagan universe. Shakespeare's most drastic departure from The ...
... scene the perfect setting for its eruption; and he erased virtually every trace of his source's Christian vision, leaving his characters marooned in an altogether bleaker, pagan universe. Shakespeare's most drastic departure from The ...
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... scene: 'my hospitable favours | You should not ruffle thus' (40–41); and Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is likewise indebted for a ...
... scene: 'my hospitable favours | You should not ruffle thus' (40–41); and Lear's use of the term 'hysterica passio' to diagnose the malady that assails him in Act II, scene 4. To Florio's Montaigne King Lear is likewise indebted for a ...
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... scene of the play, Lear is the epitome of wilful, imperious majesty. He announces his decision to abdicate the ... scenes later, however, when Kent rejoins his liege lord in the guise of the plain-spoken servant, Caius, the authority in ...
... scene of the play, Lear is the epitome of wilful, imperious majesty. He announces his decision to abdicate the ... scenes later, however, when Kent rejoins his liege lord in the guise of the plain-spoken servant, Caius, the authority in ...
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... scene has been transformed by his children's cruelty and 'The tyranny of the open night' (III.4.2) into a man who feels compassion for the most despised of his fellow human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his ...
... scene has been transformed by his children's cruelty and 'The tyranny of the open night' (III.4.2) into a man who feels compassion for the most despised of his fellow human beings, and suddenly comprehends the callous iniquity of his ...
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... scene 6 Lear returns to the question of justice left hanging in Act III, scene 6, the surreal scene in which the Fool and Edgar joined him to arraign an invisible Gonerill and Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of ...
... scene 6 Lear returns to the question of justice left hanging in Act III, scene 6, the surreal scene in which the Fool and Edgar joined him to arraign an invisible Gonerill and Regan. But by now his disenchantment with the very idea of ...
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