King LearRandom House Publishing Group, 2013 M06 12 - 352 pages A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings–as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Gloucester blinded or Cordelia dead in Lear's arms. The responses of the chief characters are correspondingly ... Gloucester's ministering son Edgar can offer him no greater consolation than stoic resolve: “Men must endure / Their ...
... Gloucester blinded or Cordelia dead in Lear's arms. The responses of the chief characters are correspondingly ... Gloucester's ministering son Edgar can offer him no greater consolation than stoic resolve: “Men must endure / Their ...
Page xiv
... Gloucester asks for Edmund only to learn that Edmund has betrayed him in return for siding with Lear in the approaching civil War. Gloucester's response, however, is not to accuse Edmund of treachery but to beg forgiveness of the ...
... Gloucester asks for Edmund only to learn that Edmund has betrayed him in return for siding with Lear in the approaching civil War. Gloucester's response, however, is not to accuse Edmund of treachery but to beg forgiveness of the ...
Page xxi
... Gloucester was blinded offstage, and prevented Gloucester's too-improbable suicide by the timely arrival of Lear. ('0 U': Ch >-1 T-7 U7 (I7 /,Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as. ]ohn Philip Kemble (with his ...
... Gloucester was blinded offstage, and prevented Gloucester's too-improbable suicide by the timely arrival of Lear. ('0 U': Ch >-1 T-7 U7 (I7 /,Cordelia, and later his brother Charles as Edmund and then as. ]ohn Philip Kemble (with his ...
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... Gloucester speak from offstage during his blinding and brought on Lear in time to forestall the unpalatable “fall" of ... Gloucester's blinding and nine other scenes, leaving the play “considerably reO (*1 U': CI: '-H duced,” though for ...
... Gloucester speak from offstage during his blinding and brought on Lear in time to forestall the unpalatable “fall" of ... Gloucester's blinding and nine other scenes, leaving the play “considerably reO (*1 U': CI: '-H duced,” though for ...
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... Gloucester's attempted suicide makes similarly imaginative use of stage space. He and the disguised Edgar are on the ... Gloucester falls forward and is not killed after all can the audience be sure that Edgar is playing a role, acting ...
... Gloucester's attempted suicide makes similarly imaginative use of stage space. He and the disguised Edgar are on the ... Gloucester falls forward and is not killed after all can the audience be sure that Edgar is playing a role, acting ...
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Alack ALBANY bastard blind brother Burgundy Charles Dickens Child Rowland Cordelia CORNWALL D. H. Lawrence daughters dear death disguised doth Dover Duke Duke of Cornwall Edith Wharton Edmund Enter Edgar Enter Lear Exeunt Exit eyes father fear film flatter folio follow FOOL fortune France Fyodor Dostoevsky GENTLEMAN give Gloucester's gods GONERIL Goneril and Regan grace hast hath hear heart heavens honor horse i'th Jane Austen justice KENT King Lear kingdom knave Lear's Leir Leonatus letter lord madam master means MESSENGER nature never night noble nuncle Perillus pity play play's Plexirtus poor pray princes quarto RAGAN REGAN royal scene servants Shakespeare sister Skalliger speak stage stand storm Stratford-upon-Avon suffering sword Telenor tell theater thee There's thine thou art traitor trumpet unto villain wicked sisters William Shakespeare wretched