King LearPenguin, 1998 M06 1 - 352 pages The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and tragic story of a kingdom held in the thrall of an aging ruler’s descent into madness. Desperate for praise, he banishes those who would guide him with honesty and surrounds himself with sycophants—an action that leads to his ultimate downfall.... This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: • An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater • A special introduction to the play by the editor, Russell Fraser • Selections from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and The True Chronicle History of King Lear, the sources from which Shakespeare derived King Lear • Dramatic criticism from Samuel Johnson, A. C. Bradley, John Russell Brown, and others • A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text • And more... |
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... mind is tossing on the ocean, There where your argosies with portly sail—Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or as it were the pageants of the sea—Do overpeer the petty traffickers That cursy to them, do them reverence, As ...
... mind is tossing on the ocean, There where your argosies with portly sail—Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or as it were the pageants of the sea—Do overpeer the petty traffickers That cursy to them, do them reverence, As ...
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... mind when we first think of Shakespeare's medium: It is blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter. (In a mechanically exact line there are five iambic feet. An iambic foot consists of two syllables, the second accented, as in away; five ...
... mind when we first think of Shakespeare's medium: It is blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter. (In a mechanically exact line there are five iambic feet. An iambic foot consists of two syllables, the second accented, as in away; five ...
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... author of the plays, but readers should bear in mind that the texts they read, even when derived from a single text, such as the First Folio (1623), are inevitably the collaborative work not simply of Shakespeare with.
... author of the plays, but readers should bear in mind that the texts they read, even when derived from a single text, such as the First Folio (1623), are inevitably the collaborative work not simply of Shakespeare with.
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... minds they hear Samuel Johnson on the dangers of emendation: “I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.” Some departures (in addition to spelling, punctuation, and lineation) ...
... minds they hear Samuel Johnson on the dangers of emendation: “I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.” Some departures (in addition to spelling, punctuation, and lineation) ...
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... mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind. Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. (Twelfth Night, 3.4.379-82) —so in King Lear, an anti-romantic play in that its burden is a ...
... mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind. Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. (Twelfth Night, 3.4.379-82) —so in King Lear, an anti-romantic play in that its burden is a ...
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