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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... tragedy of Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, and the narrative poems Venus and Adonis (1592–3) and The Rape of Lucrece (1593–4), and is still evident in his latest plays, informing the dream visions of Pericles and Cymbeline and ...
... tragedy of Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, and the narrative poems Venus and Adonis (1592–3) and The Rape of Lucrece (1593–4), and is still evident in his latest plays, informing the dream visions of Pericles and Cymbeline and ...
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... tragedies, such as King Lear and Macbeth. He maintained an output of around two plays a year, ringing the changes between comic and serious. All his comedies have serious elements: Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, almost reaches ...
... tragedies, such as King Lear and Macbeth. He maintained an output of around two plays a year, ringing the changes between comic and serious. All his comedies have serious elements: Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, almost reaches ...
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... tragedy widely revered as Shakespeare's supreme achievement and a towering masterpiece of world literature. To study or to stage King Lear today, in the wake of the countless theatrical productions, critical commentaries and works of ...
... tragedy widely revered as Shakespeare's supreme achievement and a towering masterpiece of world literature. To study or to stage King Lear today, in the wake of the countless theatrical productions, critical commentaries and works of ...
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... tragedy into an interminable domestic melodrama, leaking pathos from every pore. Yet it is also true that seeing King Lear acted with skill and understanding, not only in the theatre, but also in film versions viewed in the cinema or on ...
... tragedy into an interminable domestic melodrama, leaking pathos from every pore. Yet it is also true that seeing King Lear acted with skill and understanding, not only in the theatre, but also in film versions viewed in the cinema or on ...
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... tragedy as a grim witness to the absurdity of life in a heartless universe; for others, it meant hailing it as proof that human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair. These views of King Lear surrendered in ...
... tragedy as a grim witness to the absurdity of life in a heartless universe; for others, it meant hailing it as proof that human dignity can be salvaged from the most unspeakable agony and despair. These views of King Lear surrendered in ...
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