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 xv
... seem either marked or of unusual interest. In the interests of compactness and brevity,I have employed in my annotations (as consistently as I am able) a number of stylistic and typographical devices: • The annotation of a single word ...
... seem either marked or of unusual interest. In the interests of compactness and brevity,I have employed in my annotations (as consistently as I am able) a number of stylistic and typographical devices: • The annotation of a single word ...
Pagina xvii
... seems to me Shakespeare's greatest achievement,but it seems to me not his greatest 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 ...
... seems to me Shakespeare's greatest achievement,but it seems to me not his greatest 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 ...
Pagina xviii
... seem picayune to the en- thralled and worshipping reader,but I believe they have almost always proved fatal to the play in performance,because Shakespeare has not given us the means to resolve them, but substituted a cloak of dark ...
... seem picayune to the en- thralled and worshipping reader,but I believe they have almost always proved fatal to the play in performance,because Shakespeare has not given us the means to resolve them, but substituted a cloak of dark ...
Pagina xix
... 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 meant for them to, as the phrase goes,cut a rug.Insert a period ...
... 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 meant for them to, as the phrase goes,cut a rug.Insert a period ...
Pagina xxii
... seems businesslike and feasible—until this curiously bland idiocy. Shakespeare blows no trumpets, offers us no high-dramatic signals, but if there were time to stop and consider, when watching (or even when reading), it would surely seem ...
... seems businesslike and feasible—until this curiously bland idiocy. Shakespeare blows no trumpets, offers us no high-dramatic signals, but if there were time to stop and consider, when watching (or even when reading), it would surely seem ...
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