King LearDover Publications, 1994 M06 16 - 144 pages First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth. |
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... attendant on Cordelia . A Herald . Servants to Cornwall . GONERIL , REGAN , daughters to Lear . CORDELIA , Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers , Soldiers , and Attendants . ACT I SCENE I - King Lear's Palace Enter KENT vii.
... Attendants LEAR . Let me not stay a jot for dinner ; go get it ready . [ Exit an Attendant . ] How now ! what art thou ? KENT . A man , sir . LEAR . KENT . LEAR . What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ? I do profess to be ...
... Attendants GENT . LEAR . GENT . LEAR . GENT . LEAR . GENT . LEAR . O , here he is : lay hand upon him . Sir , Your most dear daughter- No rescue ? What , a prisoner ? I am even The natural fool of fortune . Use me well ; You shall have ...