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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William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. allowed to stand. Accordingly, Tate not only reunited father and daughter at the play's end, but also provided a love interest throughout between Edgar and Cordelia (leaving out ...
William Shakespeare David Bevington, David Scott Kastan. allowed to stand. Accordingly, Tate not only reunited father and daughter at the play's end, but also provided a love interest throughout between Edgar and Cordelia (leaving out ...
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... stands out in bold relief. Gloucester's eyes are gouged out with a spoon; when the screen is blacked out at the critical moment, it is then filled with the face of the relentless perpetrator, Cornwall (Patrick Magee). \X/hen Cornwall ...
... stands out in bold relief. Gloucester's eyes are gouged out with a spoon; when the screen is blacked out at the critical moment, it is then filled with the face of the relentless perpetrator, Cornwall (Patrick Magee). \X/hen Cornwall ...
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... stands defenseless against loneliness and brutality. Self-knowledge, painfully bought, comes to him in the storm scenes with the compassionate realization that he has failed to heed the suffering of his people. The visual effects are ...
... stands defenseless against loneliness and brutality. Self-knowledge, painfully bought, comes to him in the storm scenes with the compassionate realization that he has failed to heed the suffering of his people. The visual effects are ...
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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