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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... things about King Lear that cannot be taught in the classroom or the lecture hall. That modern critics have paid as little mind to Hazlitt's qualms about commenting on King Lear as modern directors have to Lamb's disdain for staging it ...
... things about King Lear that cannot be taught in the classroom or the lecture hall. That modern critics have paid as little mind to Hazlitt's qualms about commenting on King Lear as modern directors have to Lamb's disdain for staging it ...
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... things even more confusing, recent scholarship has made the definition of the text of King Lear a matter for heated dispute, on the grounds that interpretations of the play will vary according to which version of it is used. Should we ...
... things even more confusing, recent scholarship has made the definition of the text of King Lear a matter for heated dispute, on the grounds that interpretations of the play will vary according to which version of it is used. Should we ...
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... things – What they are yet I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. (274–7) Lear recovers his phenomenal powers of invocation and malediction in the superb arias of wrath he declaims at the beginning of Act III. When he ...
... things – What they are yet I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. (274–7) Lear recovers his phenomenal powers of invocation and malediction in the superb arias of wrath he declaims at the beginning of Act III. When he ...
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... thing itself! Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here' (III.4.103–5). It is a remarkable moment, whose implications cut far deeper than Lear's prayer ...
... thing itself! Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here' (III.4.103–5). It is a remarkable moment, whose implications cut far deeper than Lear's prayer ...
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... thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown. When he and Cordelia are captured, the prospect of imprisonment with her strikes him as infinitely preferable, because it ...
... thing on Lear's mind is reclaiming his crown and resuming a reign whose inherent immorality he cannot disown. When he and Cordelia are captured, the prospect of imprisonment with her strikes him as infinitely preferable, because it ...
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