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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... CORNWALL , ALBANY , GONERIL , REGAN , CORDELIA , and Attendants LEAR . GLOU . LEAR . Attend the lords of France and Burgundy , Gloucester . I shall , my liege . [ Exeunt Gloucester and Edmund . ] Meantime we shall express our darker ...
... Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him this night . How comes that ? Nay , I know not . You have heard of the news abroad , I mean the whispered ones , for they are yet but ear - kissing arguments ? 1 Not I : pray you ...
... Cornwall and his wife . Well , my good lord , I have inform'd them so . Inform'd them ! Dost thou understand me , man ? Ay , my good lord . The king would speak with Cornwall ; the dear father Would with his daughter speak , commands ...