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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... seems to have fallen on relatively hard times in later life. He would have been brought up as a Catholic, and may have retained Catholic sympathies, but his son subscribed publicly to Anglicanism throughout his life. The most important ...
... seems to have fallen on relatively hard times in later life. He would have been brought up as a Catholic, and may have retained Catholic sympathies, but his son subscribed publicly to Anglicanism throughout his life. The most important ...
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... seems likely that at some unknown point after the birth of his twins he joined a theatre company and gained experience as both actor and writer in the provinces and London. The London theatres closed because of plague in 1593 and 1594 ...
... seems likely that at some unknown point after the birth of his twins he joined a theatre company and gained experience as both actor and writer in the provinces and London. The London theatres closed because of plague in 1593 and 1594 ...
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... seem a formidable task. Some comfort can be squeezed from the fact that the task of squaring up to King Lear seemed just as formidable 200 years ago to the poets and critics of the Romantic age who shared Percy Bysshe Shelley's ...
... seem a formidable task. Some comfort can be squeezed from the fact that the task of squaring up to King Lear seemed just as formidable 200 years ago to the poets and critics of the Romantic age who shared Percy Bysshe Shelley's ...
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... seems to defy definition and analysis, critics of every camp have vied tirelessly to recruit King Lear to their cause. Nor is this surprising, when one considers the prize that is at stake. As the keystone of the canon and the gold ...
... seems to defy definition and analysis, critics of every camp have vied tirelessly to recruit King Lear to their cause. Nor is this surprising, when one considers the prize that is at stake. As the keystone of the canon and the gold ...
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... poem, The Faerie Queene (1590). From Spenser, indeed, he seems to have lifted the spelling of Cordelia's name and the idea that she died by hanging. But in all these versions, as in earlier renditions, the story ends with Lear.
... poem, The Faerie Queene (1590). From Spenser, indeed, he seems to have lifted the spelling of Cordelia's name and the idea that she died by hanging. But in all these versions, as in earlier renditions, the story ends with Lear.
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