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Essay Galaxy - King Lear: Everything About the Play Hangs on First Two Scenes
King Lear: Everything About the Play Hangs on First Two Scenes
An argument to support the view that "everything about the play [King Lear]
hangs on the first two scenes not just the plot but the values as well."
"King Lear, as I see it, confronts the perplexity and mystery of human
action." (Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies, 169) As the previous quotation
from the scriptures of Maynard Mack implies, King Lear is a very complex and
intricate play which happens to be surrounded by a lot of debate. "The folio
of 1623, which was, as is well known, edited by two of Shakespeare's fellow
actors" (Notes and Essays on Shakespeare, 242), contains not only historical
errors, but errors which pertain to certain characters speaking other
characters lines. Amidst all the controversy one fact can be settled upon by
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