Bibliograph

This great stage ;, image and structure in King Lear

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This great stage ;, image and structure in King Lear

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 295-332)

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This great stage ;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Sub title

image and structure in King Lear

Summary

"My own concern, then, is with families of words and their functioning; it is not with the mere anthologizing of images and the classification of them by such subjects as animals, nature, food, drink, and so on; nor with the solitary image which does its work in its own passage; not with all the images in a play, but with those that are repeated and interconnected. This essay, then, has its subject not images as such but the structure and meaning in which images, whether the image words are used literally or figuratively, have an important role."--From the foreword

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Preliminaries. Critical method -- I stumbled when I saw -- Poor naked wretches and proud array -- The breach in Nature -- Hear, Nature, hear -- If you do love old men -- Largest bounty and true need -- Reason in madness -- Madness in reason -- The gods are just -- This great stage

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