Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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... daughters , Lear's violent re- action shows the terrible rigidity of his fixation : Death , traitor , nothing could have subdu'd nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters . ( III.iv.72-73 ) This fixation stubbornly recurs ; and ...
... daughters , Lear's violent re- action shows the terrible rigidity of his fixation : Death , traitor , nothing could have subdu'd nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters . ( III.iv.72-73 ) This fixation stubbornly recurs ; and ...
Page 112
... daughters " all my living , I'd keep my coxcombs myself . There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters " ( I.iv.120-122 ) . Here is a clear identification of Lear with the Fool , and for having behaved impractically . Indeed , the ...
... daughters " all my living , I'd keep my coxcombs myself . There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters " ( I.iv.120-122 ) . Here is a clear identification of Lear with the Fool , and for having behaved impractically . Indeed , the ...
Page 134
... daughters are but extensions of himself . He had told Goneril : yet thou art my flesh , my blood , my daughter ; Or rather a disease that's in my flesh . . . ( II.iv.224-225 ) And , a little later , when he is verging on madness , he ...
... daughters are but extensions of himself . He had told Goneril : yet thou art my flesh , my blood , my daughter ; Or rather a disease that's in my flesh . . . ( II.iv.224-225 ) And , a little later , when he is verging on madness , he ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
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