Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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Page 127
... sexual life and remembers chiefly that " there was good sport at his mak- ing . " Gloucester perhaps suffers as a result of his callous sensuality . Edgar later comments to Edmund : The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him ...
... sexual life and remembers chiefly that " there was good sport at his mak- ing . " Gloucester perhaps suffers as a result of his callous sensuality . Edgar later comments to Edmund : The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him ...
Page 128
... sexual atti- tudes . He is of course an extremely old man , and society- particularly its younger members like Hamlet - likes to think that old age , like infancy , is securely free from sexual needs or even in- terests . Shakespeare ...
... sexual atti- tudes . He is of course an extremely old man , and society- particularly its younger members like Hamlet - likes to think that old age , like infancy , is securely free from sexual needs or even in- terests . Shakespeare ...
Page 132
... sexual imagery is even here close enough to the surface to emerge without mad- ness . It is , then , a fairly conscious part of his growing awareness of sexuality and the horror of the corrupt female body . And what increases the horror ...
... sexual imagery is even here close enough to the surface to emerge without mad- ness . It is , then , a fairly conscious part of his growing awareness of sexuality and the horror of the corrupt female body . And what increases the horror ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Copyright | |
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