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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... upbringing? Lear's ego seems fully capable of demanding this sacrifice from his daughters, especially from his favorite, Cordelia; he has given them his whole kingdom, now let them care for him as befits his royal. Xii IN'l'ROI')UC'l'ION.
... upbringing? Lear's ego seems fully capable of demanding this sacrifice from his daughters, especially from his favorite, Cordelia; he has given them his whole kingdom, now let them care for him as befits his royal. Xii IN'l'ROI')UC'l'ION.
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... royal rank and patriarchal role. The “second childishn of his old age brings with it a self-centered longing to monopolize the lives of his children and to be a child again. Besides, as king, Lear has long grown accustomed to flattery ...
... royal rank and patriarchal role. The “second childishn of his old age brings with it a self-centered longing to monopolize the lives of his children and to be a child again. Besides, as king, Lear has long grown accustomed to flattery ...
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... royal authority—an object lesson not easily missed by Restoration audiences with vivid memories of their own civil war. Tate's Lear enjoyed a remarkable succ t was acted in all but nine of the years in the eighteenth century. Thomas ...
... royal authority—an object lesson not easily missed by Restoration audiences with vivid memories of their own civil war. Tate's Lear enjoyed a remarkable succ t was acted in all but nine of the years in the eighteenth century. Thomas ...
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... Royal, Drury Lane, in 1823 and in subsequent productions until his retirement. Yet even Kean retained the love story of Edgar and Cordelia and banished the Fool. Literary critics such as ]oseph Addison, William Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb ...
... Royal, Drury Lane, in 1823 and in subsequent productions until his retirement. Yet even Kean retained the love story of Edgar and Cordelia and banished the Fool. Literary critics such as ]oseph Addison, William Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb ...
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... Royal Shakespeare Company almost exclusively depended upon the folio text (rather than the generous conflation of quarto and folio of most productions) though, pressured by a number of the actors, he did use the quarto's mock trial ...
... Royal Shakespeare Company almost exclusively depended upon the folio text (rather than the generous conflation of quarto and folio of most productions) though, pressured by a number of the actors, he did use the quarto's mock trial ...
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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