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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... suggests that she was of more than average practical ability. Her husband John, a glover, apparently unable to write, was nevertheless a capable businessman and loyal townsfellow, who seems to have fallen on relatively hard times in ...
... suggests that she was of more than average practical ability. Her husband John, a glover, apparently unable to write, was nevertheless a capable businessman and loyal townsfellow, who seems to have fallen on relatively hard times in ...
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... suggests that he penned the play somewhere between late 1605 and early 1606. So we do know that he was writing at the height of his imaginative and expressive powers, with over two dozen comedies, histories and tragedies to his credit ...
... suggests that he penned the play somewhere between late 1605 and early 1606. So we do know that he was writing at the height of his imaginative and expressive powers, with over two dozen comedies, histories and tragedies to his credit ...
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... suggests that unacknowledged culpability is preying on his mind: Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulgèd crimes Unwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtue That art ...
... suggests that unacknowledged culpability is preying on his mind: Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulgèd crimes Unwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtue That art ...
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... suggests that Shakespeare's exploration of these matters is anything but unwitting. Edgar sums up his kinship with the king succinctly: 'He childed as I fathered' (III.6.108). The title page of the 1608 Quarto underlines their affinity ...
... suggests that Shakespeare's exploration of these matters is anything but unwitting. Edgar sums up his kinship with the king succinctly: 'He childed as I fathered' (III.6.108). The title page of the 1608 Quarto underlines their affinity ...
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