Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 11Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 91
... Goneril's tormented line ' A fool usurps my bed ' [ IV . ii . 28 ] . Patience Collier's Regan is the less potent of the sisters , but she is matched against Irene Worth whose Goneril is a creature of fierce sexuality which burns through ...
... Goneril's tormented line ' A fool usurps my bed ' [ IV . ii . 28 ] . Patience Collier's Regan is the less potent of the sisters , but she is matched against Irene Worth whose Goneril is a creature of fierce sexuality which burns through ...
Page 96
... Goneril's complaints , as if these were not false . Lear and his knights were even shown rioting in the hall of her cas- tle , and their general behavior to her and her servants contra- dicted what the actual words demand from the ...
... Goneril's complaints , as if these were not false . Lear and his knights were even shown rioting in the hall of her cas- tle , and their general behavior to her and her servants contra- dicted what the actual words demand from the ...
Page 133
... Goneril's eviction of her father and his retinue . Not only did this distort Shakespeare's intention to show Gon- eril as an archetype of evil , Mack argues , it was so vividly ag- gressive an act " that it fixed Lear in the mind as not ...
... Goneril's eviction of her father and his retinue . Not only did this distort Shakespeare's intention to show Gon- eril as an archetype of evil , Mack argues , it was so vividly ag- gressive an act " that it fixed Lear in the mind as not ...
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