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INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto ( Q ) , was printed in 1608 , and has the following title - page : — M. William Shak - speare : | HIS | True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King LEAR and his three ...
INTRODUCTION THE first edition of King Lear , in Quarto ( Q ) , was printed in 1608 , and has the following title - page : — M. William Shak - speare : | HIS | True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King LEAR and his three ...
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... becoming a sudden strata- gem to entrap Cordelia into compliance with his wishes : - 1 The words of farewell in the Mirror for Magistrates look like a reminiscence of the then recent death of Mary : - Farewell my realm of Fraunce ...
... becoming a sudden strata- gem to entrap Cordelia into compliance with his wishes : - 1 The words of farewell in the Mirror for Magistrates look like a reminiscence of the then recent death of Mary : - Farewell my realm of Fraunce ...
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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 phrase perhaps in Shake- speare's mind when he made Lear ...
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 phrase perhaps in Shake- speare's mind when he made Lear ...
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Lear , like his prototype , resigns his kingdom , and does not merely determine who shall inherit it after his death . Kent is a blunter Perillus , Oswald a less masculine ' Messenger . ' Leir's reunion with Cordeilla faintly ...
Lear , like his prototype , resigns his kingdom , and does not merely determine who shall inherit it after his death . Kent is a blunter Perillus , Oswald a less masculine ' Messenger . ' Leir's reunion with Cordeilla faintly ...
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... Cordelia's desperate death , like all the other miseries of the story , into relation with the supreme pathos of the fate of Lear . It was evidently as a foil to Lear's sublime agony that Shakespeare introduced the crasser and more ...
... Cordelia's desperate death , like all the other miseries of the story , into relation with the supreme pathos of the fate of Lear . It was evidently as a foil to Lear's sublime agony that Shakespeare introduced the crasser and more ...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 9 The Eversley edition The Works of Shakespeare, Charles Harold Herford |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, limited, 1904 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 15 Jan 2009 |
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