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... Lear and Macbeth . To those who are not familiar with Shakespeare's language Lear is a difficult play to read because of its excessive concentration of thought , It is not so much that he uses a strange vocabulary or difficult words ...
... Lear and Macbeth . To those who are not familiar with Shakespeare's language Lear is a difficult play to read because of its excessive concentration of thought , It is not so much that he uses a strange vocabulary or difficult words ...
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... Lear . ' Nothing . ' ' Nothing will come of nothing , speak again . ' Lear is wrong , for from this ' nothing ' comes every- thing . The word echoes in the parallel story of Gloucester , also mistaking the loyalty of his children ...
... Lear . ' Nothing . ' ' Nothing will come of nothing , speak again . ' Lear is wrong , for from this ' nothing ' comes every- thing . The word echoes in the parallel story of Gloucester , also mistaking the loyalty of his children ...
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... Lear . There are about five hundred differences of reading between the Quarto and Folio . The Folio text , as a close examination shows , was set up from a copy of the Quarto most care- fully corrected . Presumably , therefore , the ...
... Lear . There are about five hundred differences of reading between the Quarto and Folio . The Folio text , as a close examination shows , was set up from a copy of the Quarto most care- fully corrected . Presumably , therefore , the ...
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PREFACE | 9 |
MATERIALS FOR THE LIFE | 24 |
SHAKESPEARES COMPANY | 70 |
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