King LearBristol Classical Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... play , Shakespeare's King Lear ; rather it is a huge dramatic possibility , for the stagecraft of each period to shape for itself . This is to some extent true of all plays , of course : their authors commit them to the creativity of ...
... play , Shakespeare's King Lear ; rather it is a huge dramatic possibility , for the stagecraft of each period to shape for itself . This is to some extent true of all plays , of course : their authors commit them to the creativity of ...
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... play did not suit the times , and when the company was offered rewritten version of it in 1681 by the young Irish poet Nahum Tate , it was pleased to switch to King Lear in his ' New - Modelling ' . It is a very different play . Tate ...
... play did not suit the times , and when the company was offered rewritten version of it in 1681 by the young Irish poet Nahum Tate , it was pleased to switch to King Lear in his ' New - Modelling ' . It is a very different play . Tate ...
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... play by Beckett , such an array is inessen- tial in a world of moral neutrality . The cutting left intact , however , the prophecy uttered by the Fool at the end of III.2 , and this speech became the focus of a different interpretation ...
... play by Beckett , such an array is inessen- tial in a world of moral neutrality . The cutting left intact , however , the prophecy uttered by the Fool at the end of III.2 , and this speech became the focus of a different interpretation ...
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