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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... death of the innocent Cordelia a death no longer willed even by the villain who arranged her execution. “ls this the promised end?" (53,268) asks the Earl of Kent, stressing the unparalleled horror of the catastrophe. Throughout its ...
... death of the innocent Cordelia a death no longer willed even by the villain who arranged her execution. “ls this the promised end?" (53,268) asks the Earl of Kent, stressing the unparalleled horror of the catastrophe. Throughout its ...
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... death. (Cordelia, as his st ssor, is later dethroned and murdered by her wicked nephews, but that is another story.) Sixteenth-century Tudor versions of the Lear story with which Shakespeare was familiar—]ohn I-liggins's account in The ...
... death. (Cordelia, as his st ssor, is later dethroned and murdered by her wicked nephews, but that is another story.) Sixteenth-century Tudor versions of the Lear story with which Shakespeare was familiar—]ohn I-liggins's account in The ...
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... of their masters' evil deeds. “I'll never care what wickedness I do, / If this man come to good," says one, and his fellow agrees: “If she [Regan] live long, / And in the end meet the old course of death, /. x viii INTRODUCTION.
... of their masters' evil deeds. “I'll never care what wickedness I do, / If this man come to good," says one, and his fellow agrees: “If she [Regan] live long, / And in the end meet the old course of death, /. x viii INTRODUCTION.
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... death, / Women will all turn monsters" (3.7.1OZ—5). Yet these servants do, in fact, obey their own best instincts, turning on Comwall and ministering to Gloucester despite danger to themselves. Similarly, Albany abandons his mild ...
... death, / Women will all turn monsters" (3.7.1OZ—5). Yet these servants do, in fact, obey their own best instincts, turning on Comwall and ministering to Gloucester despite danger to themselves. Similarly, Albany abandons his mild ...
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... death in 171D and cceeded by (among others) Barton Booth, ]ames Quin, and, beginning in 1742, David Garrick. Anne Bracegirdle, Peg Woffington, Susannah Cibber, and George Anne Bellamy were notable Cordelias of the century. There were ...
... death in 171D and cceeded by (among others) Barton Booth, ]ames Quin, and, beginning in 1742, David Garrick. Anne Bracegirdle, Peg Woffington, Susannah Cibber, and George Anne Bellamy were notable Cordelias of the century. There were ...
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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