The Good that Lives After Them: A Pattern in Shakespeare's Tragedies |
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... king there : Is Hamlet meant to think that the eavesdroppper is the King , and the actor to show this ? I believe not ; for we are aware that he has just come swiftly from the King's closet where he has left him on his knees . And this ...
... king there : Is Hamlet meant to think that the eavesdroppper is the King , and the actor to show this ? I believe not ; for we are aware that he has just come swiftly from the King's closet where he has left him on his knees . And this ...
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... King Lear , cf. 241n45 below ; Honigmann , Myriad 75 : " The play [ sc . King Lear ] visibly slows down after the opening scenes , instead of gathering momentum " ; and Mason 218-19 . 3 Coursen says that Lear " does not abdicate . He ...
... King Lear , cf. 241n45 below ; Honigmann , Myriad 75 : " The play [ sc . King Lear ] visibly slows down after the opening scenes , instead of gathering momentum " ; and Mason 218-19 . 3 Coursen says that Lear " does not abdicate . He ...
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... king , too small to be great . Macbeth in fact is never ad- dressed , and probably never referred to , as " king " ; 7 at the end of the play he is termed rather a " tyrant " and a " butcher . " Lear , on the other hand , is , by his ...
... king , too small to be great . Macbeth in fact is never ad- dressed , and probably never referred to , as " king " ; 7 at the end of the play he is termed rather a " tyrant " and a " butcher . " Lear , on the other hand , is , by his ...
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Hamlets Other Purpose | 12 |
King Lear and Macbeth the First Love Test | 39 |
King Lear and Macbeth the Second Love Test | 100 |
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