The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 9Macmillan Company, 1904 |
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... A Herald . Servants to Cornwall . GONERIL , REGAN , CORDELIA , daughters to Lear . Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers Soldiers , and Attendants . SCENE : Britain . INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto 2.
... A Herald . Servants to Cornwall . GONERIL , REGAN , CORDELIA , daughters to Lear . Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers Soldiers , and Attendants . SCENE : Britain . INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto 2.
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... ie suis perdu , etc. Her suicide forms the climax of a long debate with ' Despair , ' which perhaps suggested the great scene in book i . c . ix . of the Faerie Queene . Then at the vantage will I take Cordeilla , Even 9 Introduction.
... ie suis perdu , etc. Her suicide forms the climax of a long debate with ' Despair , ' which perhaps suggested the great scene in book i . c . ix . of the Faerie Queene . Then at the vantage will I take Cordeilla , Even 9 Introduction.
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... scene ensues . With Leir's triumphant restoration the play ends . A dozen years earlier the time - honoured tragic climax of Cordelia's death would hardly have been thus forborne . It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A ...
... scene ensues . With Leir's triumphant restoration the play ends . A dozen years earlier the time - honoured tragic climax of Cordelia's death would hardly have been thus forborne . It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A ...
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... scene . Goethe branded it as ' irrational ' ; and irrational it is in so far as it throws into glaring prominence the sublime unreason of Lear . Far from rationalising the folk- tale motif , Shakespeare combines several incongruous ...
... scene . Goethe branded it as ' irrational ' ; and irrational it is in so far as it throws into glaring prominence the sublime unreason of Lear . Far from rationalising the folk- tale motif , Shakespeare combines several incongruous ...
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... SCENE II . The Earl of Gloucester's castle . Enter EDMUND , with a letter . Edm . Thou , nature , art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound . Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom , and permit The curiosity of nations ...
... SCENE II . The Earl of Gloucester's castle . Enter EDMUND , with a letter . Edm . Thou , nature , art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound . Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom , and permit The curiosity of nations ...
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