 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1928 - 250 pàgines
...says Johnson, "that I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether 1 ever endured to read again the last scenes of the...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor." For the better part of a century the feelings of playgoers were spared by alterations in the acting... | |
 | Berel Lang - 1983 - 254 pàgines
...Johnson's uncommon measures of sensibility and assurance can write that "I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor," we are bound ourselves to question that event and the others which lead to it. How could Shakespeare... | |
 | James D. Bloom - 1984 - 228 pàgines
...Lear impinging on his own sense of reality: I might relate that I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. 8 makes for Keats as our first modern poet. 9 Keats's conceit in his sonnet "On Sitting Down to Reread... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 pàgines
...University of California Press, 1989). 2. "I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that ( know not whether I ever endured to read again the...scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as editor"; cf. "But I am not able to apologize with equal plausibility for the extrusion of Gloucester's... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pàgines
...Shakespeare followed, but the death of Cordelia is simply intolerable: "I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor" (Johnson on Shakespeare 8:703-704). Hume too holds that a tragic action may be so "atrocious" as to... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pàgines
...add anything to the general suffrage, I might relate, that I was many years ago shocked by Cordelias death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play until I undertook to revise them as an editor." Arthur Sherbo, ed., Johnson on Shakespeare, vol. 8... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pàgines
...emotionality and horror of the play. Samuel Johnson related that, watching a performance, "I was so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor."4 Charles Lamb, in 1836, while not endorsing Tate's version, thought the play could be read... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pàgines
...any thing to the general suffrage, I might relate that I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia 's death that I know not whether I ever endured to read...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. There is another controversy among the criticks concerning this play. It is disputed whether the predominant... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 pàgines
...admitting in a subsequent paragraph that he was "many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that 1 know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play until I undertook to revise them as an editor" (704). Despite his strong reaction, Johnson is curiously... | |
 | Sara R. Horowitz - 1997 - 296 pàgines
..."instances of cruelty . . . too savage and shocking" to be performed: "I was many years ago shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor" (223-24). Such delicate sensibilities could not survive even the opening scenes of Kosinski's novel;... | |
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I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. 
