King LearPenguin UK, 2005 M04 7 - 368 pages 'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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... tragedy itself. 2 The story King Lear sets out to dramatize is relatively simple and the basic facts are quickly told. It is the tale of two fathers and their families whose destinies are fatally entwined. In one plot an aged king's ...
... tragedy itself. 2 The story King Lear sets out to dramatize is relatively simple and the basic facts are quickly told. It is the tale of two fathers and their families whose destinies are fatally entwined. In one plot an aged king's ...
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... tragedies, he had transmuted tragedy itself into a form flexible enough to sustain the fearless philosophical speculation that electrifies King Lear. Othello (1603–4), written a couple of years before Lear, and the play he wrote ...
... tragedies, he had transmuted tragedy itself into a form flexible enough to sustain the fearless philosophical speculation that electrifies King Lear. Othello (1603–4), written a couple of years before Lear, and the play he wrote ...
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... tragedies to employ a fully developed double plot, whose twinned tales are crafted to illuminate each other at every ... tragedy, with the shattered sovereign, all three of his daughters and almost everyone else killed off, and not a ...
... tragedies to employ a fully developed double plot, whose twinned tales are crafted to illuminate each other at every ... tragedy, with the shattered sovereign, all three of his daughters and almost everyone else killed off, and not a ...
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... tragedy by snuffing out any solace that might flicker in its closing moments. There are two other significant sources on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of King Lear: Samuel Harsnet's A Declaration of Egregious Popish ...
... tragedy by snuffing out any solace that might flicker in its closing moments. There are two other significant sources on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of King Lear: Samuel Harsnet's A Declaration of Egregious Popish ...
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... tragedy may well owe a subtler, pervasive debt to Montaigne's radical scepticism about the unquestioned assumptions and values of the early modern world, and his readiness to ride roughshod over its most cherished pieties. At the very ...
... tragedy may well owe a subtler, pervasive debt to Montaigne's radical scepticism about the unquestioned assumptions and values of the early modern world, and his readiness to ride roughshod over its most cherished pieties. At the very ...
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