In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gloucester, blinded for suspected treason, learns a profound lesson from his tragic experience: “A man may see how this world goes / with no eyes” (4.6.153-54).
Explain
For verse plays, MLA recommends giving act, scene, and line numbers that can be located in any edition of the work. Use arabic numerals, and separate the numbers with periods.
Works cited entry
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Ed. Charles Jasper Sisson. New York: Dell, 1960. Print.
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