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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... stage surmounted by a canopy and jutting into the area where spectators who paid one penny stood, and surrounded by galleries where it was possible to be seated on payment of an additional penny. Though properties such as cauldrons ...
... stage surmounted by a canopy and jutting into the area where spectators who paid one penny stood, and surrounded by galleries where it was possible to be seated on payment of an additional penny. Though properties such as cauldrons ...
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... stage King Lear today, in the wake of the countless theatrical productions, critical commentaries and works of scholarship it has engendered over the last four centuries – to say nothing of the plethora of films, novels, plays, poetry ...
... stage King Lear today, in the wake of the countless theatrical productions, critical commentaries and works of scholarship it has engendered over the last four centuries – to say nothing of the plethora of films, novels, plays, poetry ...
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... stage'. Fortunately, theatre directors and acting companies from Lamb's time to our own have paid no heed to his strictures, and at their best have proved him wrong over and over again. One can see, of course, what Lamb was driving at ...
... stage'. Fortunately, theatre directors and acting companies from Lamb's time to our own have paid no heed to his strictures, and at their best have proved him wrong over and over again. One can see, of course, what Lamb was driving at ...
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... stage and screen, and much else besides. Too often, however, the discussion of these matters at the outset intrudes between the reader and the play, muffling its immediate impact on us and obstructing our engagement with the only ...
... stage and screen, and much else besides. Too often, however, the discussion of these matters at the outset intrudes between the reader and the play, muffling its immediate impact on us and obstructing our engagement with the only ...
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... stage. For the story of Lear he relied primarily on an anonymous older play, which was published in 1605 as The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, but which had been performed ...
... stage. For the story of Lear he relied primarily on an anonymous older play, which was published in 1605 as The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, but which had been performed ...
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