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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... GLOUCESTER . EDGAR , son to Gloucester . EDMUND , bastard son to Gloucester . CURAN , a courtier . Old Man , tenant to Gloucester . Doctor . Fool . OSWALD , steward to Goneril . A Captain employed by Edmund . Gentleman attendant on ...
... Gloucester . Enter OSWALD Osw . CORN . How now ! where's the king ? My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence : Some five or six and thirty of his knights , Hot questrists3 after him , met him at gate ; Who , with some other of the ...
... Gloucester ! Lost he his other eye ? Both , both , my lord . This letter , madam , craves a speedy answer ; " T is from your sister . [ Aside ] One way I like this well ; But being widow , and my Gloucester with her , May all the ...