 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 էջ
...with the dread that he expressed in a famous note on King Lear: "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" (Shakespeare, iI, "04). (Congruently with this attitude to the finality of tragedy, the "lame and impotent... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 էջ
...substance and its form. Johnson defended Tate's happy ending, remarking that he had been 'so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor'. Charles Lamb, who scorned Tate and wrote eloquently of Shakespeare's play, nevertheless regarded it... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 էջ
...Gloucester as "an act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibition," and confessed he was "so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor." Such comments show that these scenes made the effect Shakespeare presumably intended: Johnson did find... | |
 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 էջ
...could add anything 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...of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor."2 "The public has decided." Decided what1. It was a "public" not much concerned with language,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 էջ
...Shakespeare, as Johnson unaffectedly notes that "1 was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that 1 know not whether I ever endured to read again the...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor," or after the murder of Desdemona that "I am glad that I have ended my revisal of this dreadful scene.... | |
 | Susan Bruce - 1998 - 196 էջ
...victory and felicity. And, if my sensations could add any thing to the general suffrage, I might relate, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor . . .14 D Part Three: Other Critical Preoccupations Perhaps one measure of the degree to which critical... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1999 - 188 էջ
...could add 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 again the last scenes of the play until I undertook to revise them as an editor.6 The Christianized rewriting job undertaken by Nahum... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 էջ
...Shakespeare has done in King Lear. Johnson's personal testimony — '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' — records his undulled, unbearably painful response to the very real challenge Shakespeare's tragedy... | |
 | Ann Vickery - 2000 - 374 էջ
...wrote that he was appalled by Swift's savagery and by the ending of King Lear: "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."5 Howe also speaks of the author of King Lear, who "demonstrated his volcanic loathing for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 էջ
...could add anything 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...of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.1 A French play based on the story and successfully performed on a number of occasions from... | |
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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. 
