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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... threshold of the hovel presupposes the same stratified society, in which 'pomp' would persist, but would treat those at its mercy with greater sympathy and generosity. But when Lear tears off his 'lendings', the tawdry fancy dress.
... threshold of the hovel presupposes the same stratified society, in which 'pomp' would persist, but would treat those at its mercy with greater sympathy and generosity. But when Lear tears off his 'lendings', the tawdry fancy dress.
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William Shakespeare George Hunter. when Lear tears off his 'lendings', the tawdry fancy dress of majesty, to expose the 'unaccommodated man' it masks, he acts out the understanding that monarchy itself, and the unequal distribution of ...
William Shakespeare George Hunter. when Lear tears off his 'lendings', the tawdry fancy dress of majesty, to expose the 'unaccommodated man' it masks, he acts out the understanding that monarchy itself, and the unequal distribution of ...
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... tears' are 'like a better way' (IV.3.18–19). But Lear's 'darker purpose' in carving up the kingdom is unmasked at the outset as a self-serving fantasy of paternal munificence, designed to leave all three children beholden to him and ...
... tears' are 'like a better way' (IV.3.18–19). But Lear's 'darker purpose' in carving up the kingdom is unmasked at the outset as a self-serving fantasy of paternal munificence, designed to leave all three children beholden to him and ...
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... declares Lear, displacing the woman who bore them. Yet he fears the feminine tears that would impugn his masculinity: 'let not women's weapons, water drops, | Stain my man's cheeks' (II.4.272–3). By the same token, the strident masculinity.
... declares Lear, displacing the woman who bore them. Yet he fears the feminine tears that would impugn his masculinity: 'let not women's weapons, water drops, | Stain my man's cheeks' (II.4.272–3). By the same token, the strident masculinity.
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