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King Lear: Everything About The Play Hangs On First Two Scenes
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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
f ....
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....uous posture of affairs." (Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies, 170) Not only
do the opening scenes impress upon us what events could happen in the future,
they seem to give us the whole plot in a neatly wrapped package. After the
first two scenes are over the audience is basically just along for the ride,
waiting to see how the events given to us in the opening scenes unfold. "As we
look back over the first scene, we may wonder whether the gist of the whole
matter has not been placed before us, i.... |
| Number of words: 1587 |
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