King LearMacmillan, 1900 |
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... . GONERIL , REGAN , daughters to Lear . CORDELIA , Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers , Soldiers , and Attendants . SCENE : Britain . INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto DRAMATIS PERSONE ...
... . GONERIL , REGAN , daughters to Lear . CORDELIA , Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers , Soldiers , and Attendants . SCENE : Britain . INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto DRAMATIS PERSONE ...
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... etc. Her suicide forms the climax of a long debate with Despair , ' which perhaps suggested the great scene in book i . c . ix . of the Faerie Queene . ( c . 1592. ) The Tragedy of King Lear . Then at the vantage 9 Introduction.
... etc. Her suicide forms the climax of a long debate with Despair , ' which perhaps suggested the great scene in book i . c . ix . of the Faerie Queene . ( c . 1592. ) The Tragedy of King Lear . Then at the vantage 9 Introduction.
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... scene ensues . With Leir's triumphant restoration the play ends . A dozen years earlier the time - honoured tragic climax of Cordelia's death would hardly have been thus forborne . It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A ...
... scene ensues . With Leir's triumphant restoration the play ends . A dozen years earlier the time - honoured tragic climax of Cordelia's death would hardly have been thus forborne . It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A ...
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... scene . Goethe branded it as ' irrational ' ; and irrational it is in so far as it throws into glaring prominence the sublime unreason of Lear . Far from rationalising the folk- tale motif , Shakespeare combines several incongruous ...
... scene . Goethe branded it as ' irrational ' ; and irrational it is in so far as it throws into glaring prominence the sublime unreason of Lear . Far from rationalising the folk- tale motif , Shakespeare combines several incongruous ...
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... and finely - tempered Touchstone who follows the king into the night and storm , and vanishes from our ken , like a wild dream - fancy , when the troubled morning breaks . KING LEAR ACT I. SCENE I. King Lear's palace . 16 King Lear.
... and finely - tempered Touchstone who follows the king into the night and storm , and vanishes from our ken , like a wild dream - fancy , when the troubled morning breaks . KING LEAR ACT I. SCENE I. King Lear's palace . 16 King Lear.
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Alack Albany arms art thou brother Burgundy C. H. HERFORD Child Rowland Cordeilla Cordelia Corn Cornwall daughters dear death Doct Dost thou doth Dover duke Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Edmund Enter EDGAR Enter GLOUCESTER Enter KENT Exeunt eyes farewell father Flibbertigibbet follow fortune foul fiend France Gent gentleman give Gloster Glou Gloucester's castle gods Goneril grace hand hath hear heart heavens hither honour horse I'ld Julius Cæsar King Lear kingdom knave lady Lear's Leir letter look lord madam master Mirror for Magistrates nature never night noble nuncle o'er Omitted in Ff pelican daughters pity poor Poor Tom pray Prithee Re-enter Regan SCENE Servants Shakespeare sirrah sister slave speak stand storm sword tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou dost thou hast traitor trumpet villain wind