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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... Goneril . A Captain employed by Edmund . Gentleman attendant on Cordelia . A Herald . Servants to Cornwall . GONERIL , REGAN , daughters to Lear . CORDELIA , Knights of Lear's train , Captains , Messengers , Soldiers , and Attendants ...
... 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 purpose . Give me the ...
... Goneril ! GON . ALB . GON . You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face . I fear your disposition : That nature which contemns it origin Cannot be border'd certain in itself ; She that herself will sliver and ...