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It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A phrase perhaps in Shake- speare's mind when he made Lear , piteously striving with his frenzy , exclaim : " No , I will be the pattern of all patience ' ( iii . 2.
It is clear that the author of the Chronicle play 1 A phrase perhaps in Shake- speare's mind when he made Lear , piteously striving with his frenzy , exclaim : " No , I will be the pattern of all patience ' ( iii . 2.
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Such guidance to the workings of Shakespeare's art and mind is here peculiarly welcome , for King Lear con- fronts us with more baffling problems than any other tragedy , hardly excepting even Hamlet .
Such guidance to the workings of Shakespeare's art and mind is here peculiarly welcome , for King Lear con- fronts us with more baffling problems than any other tragedy , hardly excepting even Hamlet .
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the ominous premonition of the frenzy of implacable rage which burns itself out only after consuming the vast tottering fabric of his mind , - that ' tower sublime of yesterday , that royally did wear its crown of weeds .
the ominous premonition of the frenzy of implacable rage which burns itself out only after consuming the vast tottering fabric of his mind , - that ' tower sublime of yesterday , that royally did wear its crown of weeds .
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1 Then the lurid splendour fades , the great rage expires , and all that is left in the ruined mind , his vehement , childlike need of love , flings him , helpless as a child , into Cordelia's healing and upholding The gladness of her ...
1 Then the lurid splendour fades , the great rage expires , and all that is left in the ruined mind , his vehement , childlike need of love , flings him , helpless as a child , into Cordelia's healing and upholding The gladness of her ...
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As Lear's tempest of the mind is opposed to Gloster's torments of the flesh , so the subtle malignity and blind , suicidal passion of Goneril and Regan stand in contrast with the cool , pragmatic villany of Gloster .
As Lear's tempest of the mind is opposed to Gloster's torments of the flesh , so the subtle malignity and blind , suicidal passion of Goneril and Regan stand in contrast with the cool , pragmatic villany of Gloster .
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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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