 | Helen Payne - 1993 - 294 pages
...Nahum Tate's adaptation of Lear as 'Tate (having) put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan for... the showmen of the scene to draw the mighty beast about more easily' (Lamb, 1903, 1:107). Writing in 1681 Nahum Tate describes the meaning of Shakespeare's King Lear as... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 pages
...interpretation. Charles Lamb, for example, argued that the tragic ending is an artistic necessity: "the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings alive" make "a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him." This opinion was quoted... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
...acted. . . . The play is beyond all art as the tamperings with it show. . . . Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan — for Garrick and...scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. . . . Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage." The idea that it was a poem rather... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 pages
...is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his...ending! as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone tbrough, the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 2005 - 144 pages
...their representations of Lear to give the lie to Lamb's penetrating summary : "Tate has put his book in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his...scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily." 27 IV The qualities in King Lear which impressed the eighteenth century, when it confronted Shakespeare's... | |
 | 1922 - 556 pages
...treading it down. Charles Lamb curiously exclaims against Tate's happy ending: "As if the living martydom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings...the stage of life the only decorous thing for him". "A fair dismissal" ! Is that what Lear gets in Shakespeare's Fifth Act? Fair and decorous, perhaps,... | |
 | 1835 - 1190 pages
...is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his...to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending!—as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through—the flaying of his feelings alive—did... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1907 - 312 pages
...is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick, and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw it about more easily. A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 1018 pages
...is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she mti*l shine as a lover too. Tate has put Ins hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the show-men of the gcpue, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ciMinig ! — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1970 - 316 pages
...is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending^ — as if the living martyrdom that... | |
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Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. 
