Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... Lear : " Through the mouths of the dark characters of Hamlet , Timon , Lear , and Iago , he [ Shakespeare ] craftily says , or sometimes insinuates , the things which we feel to be so terrifically true that it were all but madness for ...
... Lear : " Through the mouths of the dark characters of Hamlet , Timon , Lear , and Iago , he [ Shakespeare ] craftily says , or sometimes insinuates , the things which we feel to be so terrifically true that it were all but madness for ...
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... Lear's satirical speeches are all discoveries of disorder in this world , of senseless injustice and senseless human relations , in ordinary satire the disorder of folly may nonetheless be explained , perhaps corrected . But in tragic ...
... Lear's satirical speeches are all discoveries of disorder in this world , of senseless injustice and senseless human relations , in ordinary satire the disorder of folly may nonetheless be explained , perhaps corrected . But in tragic ...
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... Lear to return to his throne and thereby implies that for a given amount of suffering in payment Lear can both have and eat his cake . The death of Lear , that “ terrible scene , " Johnson calls it , confirms our sense of transformation ...
... Lear to return to his throne and thereby implies that for a given amount of suffering in payment Lear can both have and eat his cake . The death of Lear , that “ terrible scene , " Johnson calls it , confirms our sense of transformation ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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