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Sunday, March 14, 2010
What We Can Learn from the Torture Scene in Shakespeare's King Lear
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Perhaps the most famous torture scene in world literature takes place at the end of Act III of King Lear . In this scene, Lear's ungrate...
Friday, August 14, 2009
"I know thee not, old man"
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FALSTAFF My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING HENRY V (formerly, Prince Hal) I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How...
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Agamemnon and Menelaus
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The noble heroes of Greek antiquity are given their just due, as respected leaders of men, from the point of view of one Thersites, in Shake...
Thursday, April 10, 2008
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
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Awake, awake! Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason! Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake! Shake off this downy sleep, death's counte...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV
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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, He that...
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