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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare
As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; / They kill us for their sport
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Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them.
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he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.
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Sonnet 138, which begins: "When my love swears that she is made of truth, / I do believe her though I know she lies"}.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning" {Lear, 9.60}.
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Albany had declared that "All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings" {24.297–99}.
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The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. {24.318–21}
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Sonnet 55 that "Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme" {1–2}}.
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Lear wills his own death: "Break, heart, I prithee break
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And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!
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Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?
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Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.
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