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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... theatrical spaces such as inns, guildhalls and the great halls of country houses. Early in his career Shakespeare may have worked in collaboration, perhaps with Thomas Nashe (1567–c. 1601) in Henry VI, Part I and with George Peele (1556 ...
... theatrical spaces such as inns, guildhalls and the great halls of country houses. Early in his career Shakespeare may have worked in collaboration, perhaps with Thomas Nashe (1567–c. 1601) in Henry VI, Part I and with George Peele (1556 ...
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... 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, music and paintings it has spawned across the globe ...
... 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, music and paintings it has spawned across the globe ...
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... theatrical and cultural contexts that shaped it, its performance history on 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 ...
... theatrical and cultural contexts that shaped it, its performance history on 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 ...
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... theatrical career. A further clue to Shakespeare's chief preoccupations and creative design in King Lear can be found in the use he made of his sources in constructing the play. Lear is the only one of the tragedies to employ a fully ...
... theatrical career. A further clue to Shakespeare's chief preoccupations and creative design in King Lear can be found in the use he made of his sources in constructing the play. Lear is the only one of the tragedies to employ a fully ...
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