King LearHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 166 pages |
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... his play for the stage . This old King Leir is a comedy , ending happily , but it gave Shakespeare many hints for effective dramatization and even for the characters of Kent and Cordelia . To the Lear story of 4 INTRODUCTION.
... his play for the stage . This old King Leir is a comedy , ending happily , but it gave Shakespeare many hints for effective dramatization and even for the characters of Kent and Cordelia . To the Lear story of 4 INTRODUCTION.
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... characters in this situation , what would they do ? And what effects would their actions have ? It was in answer to such questions as these that the plot was built up in Shakespeare's mind . The play thus became not merely incidents and ...
... characters in this situation , what would they do ? And what effects would their actions have ? It was in answer to such questions as these that the plot was built up in Shakespeare's mind . The play thus became not merely incidents and ...
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... characters and the main plot - the love test and Cordelia's disinheritance , Scene ii . Edmund soliloquizes and proceeds to persuade Gloucester by means of a forged letter that his life is in danger from Edgar . This introduces the ...
... characters and the main plot - the love test and Cordelia's disinheritance , Scene ii . Edmund soliloquizes and proceeds to persuade Gloucester by means of a forged letter that his life is in danger from Edgar . This introduces the ...
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... characters . In the sub - plot , each scene marks a new result of Gloucester's folly and also a new step in the transformation of his character . At first , amiable but lacking in force , he yields hastilyand credulously to Edmund's ...
... characters . In the sub - plot , each scene marks a new result of Gloucester's folly and also a new step in the transformation of his character . At first , amiable but lacking in force , he yields hastilyand credulously to Edmund's ...
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... character . At first , violent , hasty , selfish , thinking only of the affection which he craves for himself , he is unjust to others , and most of all to those who love him best . After Goneril's falseness is shown , he is still ...
... character . At first , violent , hasty , selfish , thinking only of the affection which he craves for himself , he is unjust to others , and most of all to those who love him best . After Goneril's falseness is shown , he is still ...
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15 cents Alack Albany art thou beggar brother Burgundy characters Cordelia Corn daughters dear death Dost thou doth Dover Duke DUKE OF ALBANY Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester Elizabethan Elizabethan theatre Enter EDGAR Enter GLOUCESTER Enter KENT Enter LEAR Erit Exeunt Exit eyes farewell father Flibbertigibbet follow Fool fortune foul fiend France Gent Gentleman give Glou GLOUCESTER's castle gods Goneril grace hath hear heart heavens hendiadys hither honour Julius Cæsar King Lear knave lady Lear's letter look lord madam master means murder nature never night noble nuncle pity play plot poor Poor Tom pray Prithee Re-enter Riverside Shakespeare Scene Servants sirrah sister slave speak speech stand Steward OSWALD storm story sword tell thee there's thine thou art thou dost traitor trumpet villain whipp'd wicked sisters wits word
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Page 121 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,
Page 103 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 33 - Let it be so! thy truth then be thy dower! For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate and the night; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be...
Page 140 - Thou must be patient ; we came crying hither : Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee : mark. Gloucester. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools : this...
Page 93 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 42 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?
Page 32 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 31 - Tell me, my daughters (Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Page 92 - O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 60 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...