2016年4月21日 · King Lear dramatizes the story of an aged king of ancient Britain, whose plan to divide his kingdom among his three daughters ends tragically. When he tests each by asking …

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2022年4月8日 · “King Lear is about insiders who with terrible suddenness are shoved outside, and what they learn or don’t learn from finding themselves positioned there,” writes Arthur …

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The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare’s Two Texts of “King Lear.” Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Two versions of Shakespeare’s Lear were published in the first quarter of the …

2016年4月21日 · Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try …

2016年4月21日 · Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try …

2023年7月21日 · Why was herpetophagy (eating reptiles and amphibians) linked with madness in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”? Unpack the cultural anxieties involved in early modern English …

King Lear goes through his own psychological extremities in Dover. Brought there by his adherents to be put under Cordelia’s protection, he is plunged by the very prospect of that …

Explore the First Quarto of King Lear (1608) in the Folger’s Digital Collections. From the 1623 First Folio. (Copy 9 in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection.)