King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page 14
... Tate's late- seventeenth - century stress on solemnity and poetic justice . In Tate's post - Restoration England , there was no room for the questioning of royalty which was represented by the Fool ; post- imperial Britain cannot accept ...
... Tate's late- seventeenth - century stress on solemnity and poetic justice . In Tate's post - Restoration England , there was no room for the questioning of royalty which was represented by the Fool ; post- imperial Britain cannot accept ...
Page 97
... Tate's text it is the finale of the act , the remaining four lines ( shared between Goneril and Albany ) being either drowned in the applause for the protagonist , or cut by him before- hand . Garrick used Tate's version of the speech ...
... Tate's text it is the finale of the act , the remaining four lines ( shared between Goneril and Albany ) being either drowned in the applause for the protagonist , or cut by him before- hand . Garrick used Tate's version of the speech ...
Page 127
... Tate , ' Than have my smallest wants supplied by her . ' Charles Kean and Irving also dispensed with the reference to France , presumably for no better reason than brevity , but did not use Tate's line , and left the speech hanging ...
... Tate , ' Than have my smallest wants supplied by her . ' Charles Kean and Irving also dispensed with the reference to France , presumably for no better reason than brevity , but did not use Tate's line , and left the speech hanging ...
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