King LearYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 215 pagina's King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. |
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Pagina ix
... plays. But who today can make full or comfortable sense of it? In this very fully annotated edition,I therefore present this passage,not in the bare form quoted above, but thoroughly supported by bottom- of-the-page ix About This Book.
... plays. But who today can make full or comfortable sense of it? In this very fully annotated edition,I therefore present this passage,not in the bare form quoted above, but thoroughly supported by bottom- of-the-page ix About This Book.
Pagina xiv
... play will at times be different,depending on whose punctuation we follow,theirs or our own.I have tried,here,to use the printed seventeenth-century texts as a guide to both hearing and understanding what Shakespeare wrote. Since the ...
... play will at times be different,depending on whose punctuation we follow,theirs or our own.I have tried,here,to use the printed seventeenth-century texts as a guide to both hearing and understanding what Shakespeare wrote. Since the ...
Pagina xvii
... play.”1 Nor has Bradley been the only querulous critic.Jan Kott,who like Bradley loves the play,begins his discussion of Lear as follows: “The attitude of modern criticism to King Lear is ambiguous and somehow embarrassed.Doubtless King ...
... play.”1 Nor has Bradley been the only querulous critic.Jan Kott,who like Bradley loves the play,begins his discussion of Lear as follows: “The attitude of modern criticism to King Lear is ambiguous and somehow embarrassed.Doubtless King ...
Pagina xviii
... play in performance,because Shakespeare has not given us the means to resolve them, but substituted a cloak of dark magnificence which we may throw around them, hoping that no one will look beneath it.”3 Of course,all Shakespeare's plays ...
... play in performance,because Shakespeare has not given us the means to resolve them, but substituted a cloak of dark magnificence which we may throw around them, hoping that no one will look beneath it.”3 Of course,all Shakespeare's plays ...
Pagina xix
... play, the capital parts of which they simply could not act.”5 It seems to me not only possible, but demonstrably correct that Shakespeare did intend to give his actor comrades a play—but a play that was specifically and consciously ...
... play, the capital parts of which they simply could not act.”5 It seems to me not only possible, but demonstrably correct that Shakespeare did intend to give his actor comrades a play—but a play that was specifically and consciously ...
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