Shakespeare's Life And Work; Being An Abridgment, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of a Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Life And Work; Being An Abridgment, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of a Life of William Shakespeare
Lee Sidney Sir
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chap. 10, ed. 1590, 4to; pp. 132-3, ed. 1674, fol.). Hints for the speeches of Edgar when feigning mad- ness were drawn from Harsnet's 'Declaration of Popish Impostures,' 1603. In every act of 'Lear' the pity and terror of which tragedy is capable reach their climax. Only one who has something of the Shakespearean gift of lan- guage could adequately characterise the scenes of agony — 'the living martyrdom ' — to which the fiendish ingratitude of his daughters condemns the abdicated king — 'a ve...ry foolish, fond old man, fourscore and upward.' The ele- mental passions burst forth in his utterances with all the vehemence of the volcanic tempest which beats about his defenceless head in the scene on the heath. The brutal 126 SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE AND WORK * Tlmon of Athens.' • Pericles.* blinding of Gloucester by Cornwall exceeds in horror any other situation that Shakespeare created, if we assume that he was not responsible for the like scenes of mutilation in *Titus Andronicus.' At no point in 'Lear' is there any loosening of the tragic tension.
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