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Edmund, 1.2
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“Now, gods, stand up for bastards”
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Edmund, 1.1 [to Gloucester]
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“No my lord”
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Gloucester, 2.1
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“Loyal and natural boy”
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Edmund, 3.3
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“The younger rises when the old doth fall”
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Edmund, 5.1 [on Goneril and Regan]
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“To both these sisters I have sworn my love”
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Edmund, 5.3
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“Some good I mean to do
Despite of mine own nature”
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G. Wilson Knight
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“Edmund’s fate is nobly tragic”
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Hazlitt
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“All [he does is] managed with an uncommon degree of skill and power”
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When Edmund is punished for his ruthless rise to power, he says “the wheel is come in full circle, I am here”. This is similar to what?
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Sophocles ‘Ajax’ when upon the death of Ajax, Teucer states “that wheel comes surely round”
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