King LearMethuen, 1952 - 256 pages |
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Page lviii
... death is a punishment for her original obstinacy . Her death is even less a fitting punish- ment for her fault than Lear's own agony is an ap- propriate punishment for his foolishness . It is right that the final scenes of the play ...
... death is a punishment for her original obstinacy . Her death is even less a fitting punish- ment for her fault than Lear's own agony is an ap- propriate punishment for his foolishness . It is right that the final scenes of the play ...
Page lix
... death on Lear himself . It destroys his dream of a happy life in prison , and it hastens his final dissolution ; though his actual death - blow is not his bereavement but his joy when he imagines that Cordelia is not dead after all ...
... death on Lear himself . It destroys his dream of a happy life in prison , and it hastens his final dissolution ; though his actual death - blow is not his bereavement but his joy when he imagines that Cordelia is not dead after all ...
Page 89
... Death on my state ! where- [ Looking on Kent . This act persuades me That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practice only . Give me my servant forth . Go tell the Duke and's wife I'd speak with them , Now , presently : bid them come ...
... Death on my state ! where- [ Looking on Kent . This act persuades me That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practice only . Give me my servant forth . Go tell the Duke and's wife I'd speak with them , Now , presently : bid them come ...
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