 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured again to read the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor' ( Vickers, v. 140). Disobeying Albany's final injunction, Nahum Tate restored a happy ending to King... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...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...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. Her death is shocking, but it is the final proof of her love and constancy, as she sees: . . . We are... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 pages
...chose instead to give it an ending that moved Dr. Johnson to write, "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," and that led Nahum Tate to restore the traditional happy ending in his revised version of the play,... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - 2001 - 316 pages
...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 to read again the last scenes of the play until I undertook to revise them as an editor.66 Such was the tenaciousness of Tate's version that,... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2002 - 436 pages
...protests himself unable to rewitness and yet is bound to disavow: 'I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured...scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as editor.' We might say that Cordelia's death confirms what Blanchot terms 'the impossibility of not... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton - 2002 - 342 pages
...Samuel Johnson's comment in his 1765 edition of Shakespeare 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."5 Concluding triumphantly that 'Truth and Vertue shall... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 276 pages
...sensations could add anything to the general suffrage, I might relate, that I was many years ago 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.' Johnson on is understandable because it touches, subliminally,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 pages
...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 to read again the last Seep, vii scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.' Notes from The Plays of... | |
 | Philip Smallwood - 2003 - 234 pages
...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...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor." 15 Johnson's emotional reaction to his text is quite different from any successful interpretation of... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 2003 - 382 pages
...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'" (Ogden 16). Given this approach to Lear, it is small wonder that the emotional trauma of the ending... | |
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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. 
