Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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... plays . Whatever we may have to say about the depth of the experience of self - recognition - and psychologists will confirm that it is a shattering one - we must not forget that in a play it is also a dramatic experience . Though it is ...
... plays . Whatever we may have to say about the depth of the experience of self - recognition - and psychologists will confirm that it is a shattering one - we must not forget that in a play it is also a dramatic experience . Though it is ...
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Paul A. Jorgensen. by looking at a play written shortly before King Lear . This play , Measure for Measure , comes perhaps closest to King Lear in its concern with self - knowledge . In it , a proud and severely virtuous man ( Angelo ) ...
Paul A. Jorgensen. by looking at a play written shortly before King Lear . This play , Measure for Measure , comes perhaps closest to King Lear in its concern with self - knowledge . In it , a proud and severely virtuous man ( Angelo ) ...
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... play to establish — though not necessarily to discover - his own identity . Probably his most significant line in the play , suggesting his genu- ine need for recognition , is " Yet Edmund was belov'd ! " ( V.iii . 239 ) . There are all ...
... play to establish — though not necessarily to discover - his own identity . Probably his most significant line in the play , suggesting his genu- ine need for recognition , is " Yet Edmund was belov'd ! " ( V.iii . 239 ) . There are all ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Copyright | |
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