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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... sisters and his four stepchildren when she was only in her late teens, which suggests that she was of more than average practical ability. Her husband John, a glover, apparently unable to write, was nevertheless a capable businessman ...
... sisters and his four stepchildren when she was only in her late teens, which suggests that she was of more than average practical ability. Her husband John, a glover, apparently unable to write, was nevertheless a capable businessman ...
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... sisters, strips him of his power and strands him in a wasteland of anguish and insanity. From this plight death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters have met their deaths as well and the corpse of his devoted daughter ...
... sisters, strips him of his power and strands him in a wasteland of anguish and insanity. From this plight death at last releases him, but not before the wicked sisters have met their deaths as well and the corpse of his devoted daughter ...
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... sisters she loves him. And when his favourite, youngest child, Cordelia, declines to demonstrate that she loves him most of all, thwarting his 'darker purpose' (I.1.36) by refusing to take part in the charade he has sprung on them, Lear ...
... sisters she loves him. And when his favourite, youngest child, Cordelia, declines to demonstrate that she loves him most of all, thwarting his 'darker purpose' (I.1.36) by refusing to take part in the charade he has sprung on them, Lear ...
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... sister's: 'She will taste as like this as a crab [i.e. a sour crab-apple] does to a crab' (I.5.18). The contempt she and Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to ...
... sister's: 'She will taste as like this as a crab [i.e. a sour crab-apple] does to a crab' (I.5.18). The contempt she and Cornwall show for Lear's royalty by putting his messenger, Caius, in the stocks, and her collusion with Gonerill to ...
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... sisters?', her father cries, 'No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison. | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage' (V.3.7–9). Even the unbearable climax of the tragedy, when Lear enters with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies ...
... sisters?', her father cries, 'No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison. | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage' (V.3.7–9). Even the unbearable climax of the tragedy, when Lear enters with Cordelia's corpse in his arms and dies ...
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