King LearMethuen, 1966 - 260 pages |
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Page xxvii
... Leir and Cordella , unequalled by any in all Shakespeare's dramas . " 3 A brief summary of the plot of King Leir will show the extent to which Shakespeare deviated from it . In the first scene , Leir plans a sudden strategem to trick ...
... Leir and Cordella , unequalled by any in all Shakespeare's dramas . " 3 A brief summary of the plot of King Leir will show the extent to which Shakespeare deviated from it . In the first scene , Leir plans a sudden strategem to trick ...
Page xxix
... Leir's stupidity , though he decides not to desert him ( Sc . 8 ) . Leir is ill - treated by his favoured daughters , and the Gallian King decides to send ambassadors to invite him to visit Gallia ( Sc . 9-16 ) . The man bribed by Ragan ...
... Leir's stupidity , though he decides not to desert him ( Sc . 8 ) . Leir is ill - treated by his favoured daughters , and the Gallian King decides to send ambassadors to invite him to visit Gallia ( Sc . 9-16 ) . The man bribed by Ragan ...
Page xxxii
... Leir carefully not long before he wrote his own play . Elsewhere , Greg pointed out two apparent echoes of King Leir in Hamlet ; and from this he deduces that Shakespeare must have read the old play in manuscript.2 But is it really ...
... Leir carefully not long before he wrote his own play . Elsewhere , Greg pointed out two apparent echoes of King Leir in Hamlet ; and from this he deduces that Shakespeare must have read the old play in manuscript.2 But is it really ...
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