Verse play

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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