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Before he dies, Lear directs attention to the lifeless body of Cordelia:
Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there —1
(v. iii.311–12)
Here the past and future Are conquered, and reconciled — T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages’
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Notes
See G. Wilson Knight, The Imperial Theme (1939; rpt. London: Methuen, 1951) pp. 199–262; and Howard Felperin, Shakespearean Romance, PP. 132–9.
Irving Ribner, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare (revised edition; London: Methuen, 1965) p. 289.
See also H. R. Richmond, ‘Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: Romance Redeemed by History’, Shakespeare Studies, 4 (1968) 337.
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Kastan, D.S. (1982). ‘What Harmony is This?’: the Vision of the Romances. In: Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06145-7_6
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