Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter |
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... True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters . With the unfortunate life of Edgar , sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster , and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam . As it was played ...
... True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters . With the unfortunate life of Edgar , sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster , and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam . As it was played ...
Page vi
... True Chronicle History of King Leir , and his Three Daughters , Gonorill , Ragan , and Cordella , as it hath been divers and sundry times lately acted : ' a publication which was very soon followed by that of Shakspeare's tragedy ...
... True Chronicle History of King Leir , and his Three Daughters , Gonorill , Ragan , and Cordella , as it hath been divers and sundry times lately acted : ' a publication which was very soon followed by that of Shakspeare's tragedy ...
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... true madness of Lear , and further displays the profound dif- ference between the two . In every attempt at representing madness throughout the whole range of dramatic literature , with the single exception of Lear , it is mere light ...
... true madness of Lear , and further displays the profound dif- ference between the two . In every attempt at representing madness throughout the whole range of dramatic literature , with the single exception of Lear , it is mere light ...
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... true , are all punished , for wickedness destroys itself ; but the virtues that would bring help and succour are everywhere too late , or overmatched by the cunning activity of malice . The persons of this drama have only such a faint ...
... true , are all punished , for wickedness destroys itself ; but the virtues that would bring help and succour are everywhere too late , or overmatched by the cunning activity of malice . The persons of this drama have only such a faint ...
Page xiv
... true than in those most difficult ones wherein he portrays the development of mental unsoundness , as in Hamlet , Macbeth , and Lear ; into these he throws the whole force of his genius ; in these he transcends , not only all that other ...
... true than in those most difficult ones wherein he portrays the development of mental unsoundness , as in Hamlet , Macbeth , and Lear ; into these he throws the whole force of his genius ; in these he transcends , not only all that other ...
Common terms and phrases
affection answer appear arms Attendants bear Books bring brother cause comes Cordelia Corn Cornwall course daughters dear death dost draw duke Edgar Edmund Enter Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel follow Fool fortune France Gent give Gloster gods gone GONERIL grace hand hast hath head hear heart hence hold honour I'll keep Kent kind king knave known lady Lear leave less letter live look lord madam master means mind nature never night noble person play poor pray present reason refers Regan SCENE seek seems Servants serve Shakspeare sister speak speech stand tell thee thine things thou thought true trumpet turn villain wind
Popular passages
Page 122 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 66 - You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both, If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 7 - Good my lord , You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands , if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him , half my care and duty : Sure , 1 shall never marry like my sisters , To love my father all.
Page 100 - Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd ? A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate ! have you madded.
Page 19 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Page 5 - Tell me, my daughters (Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Page 140 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Page 114 - em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 7 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty According to my bond ; nor more nor less.
Page 115 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...