Lear's Self-discoveryUniversity of California Press, 1967 - 154 pages |
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Page 132
... woman , is , though intense , cruelly controlled . The 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 ...
... woman , is , though intense , cruelly controlled . The 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 ...
Page 133
... woman beneath the waist . This is more painful to the senses than the scene of the blinding of Gloucester , for , unlike stage business , imagery cannot be wholly or partly concealed . I sus- pect , of course , that this speech is ...
... woman beneath the waist . This is more painful to the senses than the scene of the blinding of Gloucester , for , unlike stage business , imagery cannot be wholly or partly concealed . I sus- pect , of course , that this speech is ...
Page 134
... woman he reaches one step further and sees not just the weakness but the vileness of hu- manity . It is perhaps this that leads him , when Gloucester asks to kiss his hand after the speech about woman , to say : " Let me wipe it first ...
... woman he reaches one step further and sees not just the weakness but the vileness of hu- manity . It is perhaps this that leads him , when Gloucester asks to kiss his hand after the speech about woman , to say : " Let me wipe it first ...
Contents
Some Renaissance Contexts | 12 |
The Emergence of Lear as Thinker | 44 |
Other Characters on the Rack | 83 |
Copyright | |
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