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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Page viii
... father, his cruel daughters, his loving daughter, and the like—and yet we scrutinize them for psychological motivation because they seem so real and individual. This duality appears in both the central and the secondary characters. The ...
... father, his cruel daughters, his loving daughter, and the like—and yet we scrutinize them for psychological motivation because they seem so real and individual. This duality appears in both the central and the secondary characters. The ...
Page ix
... father are simply part of that storytelling tradition, or is he, in more realistic terms, a man whose disguises are ... fathers condescending attitude and by the arbitrariness of the law that has excluded him from legitimacy and ...
... father are simply part of that storytelling tradition, or is he, in more realistic terms, a man whose disguises are ... fathers condescending attitude and by the arbitrariness of the law that has excluded him from legitimacy and ...
Page x
... fathers and their marriageable daughters is a recurrent pattern in Shakespeares late plays, as in Othello (in which ... father who, having provided for his children and having grown old, assumes he has a right to expect that those ...
... fathers and their marriageable daughters is a recurrent pattern in Shakespeares late plays, as in Othello (in which ... father who, having provided for his children and having grown old, assumes he has a right to expect that those ...
Page xi
... father as is fit but will establish for her a new priority. To Lear, as to other fathers contemplating a daughter's marriage in late Shakespearean plays, this savors of desertion. Lear is sadly deficient in self-knowledge. As Regan ...
... father as is fit but will establish for her a new priority. To Lear, as to other fathers contemplating a daughter's marriage in late Shakespearean plays, this savors of desertion. Lear is sadly deficient in self-knowledge. As Regan ...
Page xv
... father. Cornwall becomes a new father to Edmund (“thou shalt find a dearer father in my love," 3.5.25-6). Conversely, a servant who tries to restrain Cornwall from blinding Gloucester is, in Regan's eyes, monstrously insubordinate. “A ...
... father. Cornwall becomes a new father to Edmund (“thou shalt find a dearer father in my love," 3.5.25-6). Conversely, a servant who tries to restrain Cornwall from blinding Gloucester is, in Regan's eyes, monstrously insubordinate. “A ...
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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