Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 2Laurie Lanzen Harris Gale Research Company, 1984 - 591 pages This volume includes plot summaries, character profiles, criticism of the works and sources for further study. |
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Page 111
... Cordelia are wholly unlike each other . Even though we should reverse their situations , and give to Imogen the filial devotion of Cordelia , and to Cordelia the conjugal virtues of Imogen , still they would re- main perfectly distinct ...
... Cordelia are wholly unlike each other . Even though we should reverse their situations , and give to Imogen the filial devotion of Cordelia , and to Cordelia the conjugal virtues of Imogen , still they would re- main perfectly distinct ...
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... Cordelia's self - murder can only be effectually contradicted by giving her some other death . And so we have the version in which Cordelia is murdered by her foes . And this version . . . was often told in English lit- erature of the ...
... Cordelia's self - murder can only be effectually contradicted by giving her some other death . And so we have the version in which Cordelia is murdered by her foes . And this version . . . was often told in English lit- erature of the ...
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... Cordelia . The strange image which Cordelia now reflected separated Lear from this world , the world in which he had been king . He could not continue as king , as his original plan required , when he no longer had a basis for faith in ...
... Cordelia . The strange image which Cordelia now reflected separated Lear from this world , the world in which he had been king . He could not continue as king , as his original plan required , when he no longer had a basis for faith in ...
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