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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William Shakespeare. ACT I SCENE I - King Lear's Palace Enter KENT , GLOUCESTER , and EDMUND KENT . I thought the king had more affected ' the Duke of Albany than Cornwall . GLOU . It did always seem so to us : but now , in the division ...
William Shakespeare. SCENE IV - A Hall in the Same Enter KENT , disguised KENT . If but as well I other accents borrow , That can my speech defuse , my good intent May carry through itself to that full issue For which I razed my likeness ...
William Shakespeare. ACT III SCENE I - A Heath Storm still . Enter KENT and a Gentleman , meeting KENT . GENT . KENT . GENT . KENT . GENT . KENT . Who's there , besides foul weather ? One minded like the weather , most unquietly . I know ...