King LearMethuen, 1966 - 260 pages |
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Page xxii
... play as " Tragecall historie . " Originally it was called " Tragedie , " but the word has been altered in the Register . This suggests that the story of the play was already known as a tragedy . The title - page of King Leir calls it ...
... play as " Tragecall historie . " Originally it was called " Tragedie , " but the word has been altered in the Register . This suggests that the story of the play was already known as a tragedy . The title - page of King Leir calls it ...
Page xlv
... play , including the judicious contrast be- tween the assumed madness of Edgar and the real distraction of Lear . With Lamb's essay , mentioned above , Coleridge's lectures , Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ( 1817 ) , and ...
... play , including the judicious contrast be- tween the assumed madness of Edgar and the real distraction of Lear . With Lamb's essay , mentioned above , Coleridge's lectures , Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ( 1817 ) , and ...
Page xlvi
... play . " A few critics have realized that a poor stage play is , when all qualifications have been made , a poor play . This , in fact , was Thackeray's opinion 1 " We all found the play a bore . . . . It is almost blasphemy to say that ...
... play . " A few critics have realized that a poor stage play is , when all qualifications have been made , a poor play . This , in fact , was Thackeray's opinion 1 " We all found the play a bore . . . . It is almost blasphemy to say that ...
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