Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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... significant stroke on Shakespeare's part.2 There is plausibility in this contention , for not only were Elizabethan audiences alert to formal logic , but else- where in his thinking Brutus is impulsive rather than logical . On the other ...
... significant stroke on Shakespeare's part.2 There is plausibility in this contention , for not only were Elizabethan audiences alert to formal logic , but else- where in his thinking Brutus is impulsive rather than logical . On the other ...
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... significant way . We cannot appreciate Shakespeare's depiction of Lear's mentality without at least briefly studying his depiction of Hamlet's . What we can do is to see how Hamlet both differs from and carries on , as thinker , some of ...
... significant way . We cannot appreciate Shakespeare's depiction of Lear's mentality without at least briefly studying his depiction of Hamlet's . What we can do is to see how Hamlet both differs from and carries on , as thinker , some of ...
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... significant line in the play , suggesting his genu- ine need for recognition , is " Yet Edmund was belov'd ! " ( V ... significantly characterized ) , Ed- gar represents that quality of humanity which tries to assert its more human ...
... significant line in the play , suggesting his genu- ine need for recognition , is " Yet Edmund was belov'd ! " ( V ... significantly characterized ) , Ed- gar represents that quality of humanity which tries to assert its more human ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Copyright | |
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