Class and Society in ShakespeareThe Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative yet accessible guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works, and its contemporary meanings. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth. Entries include: apothecary, bear-baiting, Caesar, degree, gentry, Henry V, kingdom, London, masque, nobility, plague, society, treason, usury, whore and youth. They follow an easy to use three-part structure: a general introduction to the term or topic; a survey of its significance and use in Shakespeare's plays and a guide to further reading. |
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... Lear's state has fully disintegrated . His intemperate desires are in fact on show right at the very beginning of the play , as he presents Edmund to Kent just before Lear's court arrives on stage . So the kind of authority that existed ...
... Lear's state has fully disintegrated . His intemperate desires are in fact on show right at the very beginning of the play , as he presents Edmund to Kent just before Lear's court arrives on stage . So the kind of authority that existed ...
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... Lear . How , how , Cordelia ? Mend your speech a little , Lest you may mar your fortunes . ( KL 1.1.90–5 ) Lear misrecognizes Cordelia's statement : she really does love him exactly as she is supposed to do . But he wants something more ...
... Lear . How , how , Cordelia ? Mend your speech a little , Lest you may mar your fortunes . ( KL 1.1.90–5 ) Lear misrecognizes Cordelia's statement : she really does love him exactly as she is supposed to do . But he wants something more ...
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... Lear . Usually this is ascribed by critics to the overall symbolic terminology of beasts and nature in the play , but it has a very distinctive and specific class basis as well : Lear . O , you , sir , you , come you hither , sir , who ...
... Lear . Usually this is ascribed by critics to the overall symbolic terminology of beasts and nature in the play , but it has a very distinctive and specific class basis as well : Lear . O , you , sir , you , come you hither , sir , who ...
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