Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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Page 20
... turn to a more detailed consideration of what the Renaissance treatises meant by self - knowledge . We recall that many of the modern commentators on self - knowledge in King Lear interpret it to mean recognition of an error in judgment ...
... turn to a more detailed consideration of what the Renaissance treatises meant by self - knowledge . We recall that many of the modern commentators on self - knowledge in King Lear interpret it to mean recognition of an error in judgment ...
Page 54
... turn mine eyes upon myself , I find myself a traitor with the rest ; For I have given here my soul's consent To undeck the pompous body of a king , Made glory base , a sovereignty a slave , Proud majesty a subject , state a peasant ...
... turn mine eyes upon myself , I find myself a traitor with the rest ; For I have given here my soul's consent To undeck the pompous body of a king , Made glory base , a sovereignty a slave , Proud majesty a subject , state a peasant ...
Page 72
... turn to the audience and give a coherent account of what he is thinking . In King Lear the soliloquy is for the most part relegated to an inferior character , Edmund , and it is shown to be far less effective for the representation of ...
... turn to the audience and give a coherent account of what he is thinking . In King Lear the soliloquy is for the most part relegated to an inferior character , Edmund , and it is shown to be far less effective for the representation of ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Copyright | |
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