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Word: tyrannus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose crinkled face and impish carriage remind one more of an elf than a king. But this is not unintentional, for Kozintsev's Lear emphasizes correctly the humanness of its central character. Lear's fall is not of the same grandeur as Oedipus in Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus-Tyrannus. Rather it is the fall of a vain, petty man whose self-centered need for flattery destroys his only loving daughter and ruins his sacred kingdom...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Above the Language Barrier | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

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