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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... I'ld have it come to question : If he distaste it , let him to our sister , Whose mind and mine , I know , in that are one , Not to be over - ruled . Idle old man , That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away ! Now ...
... I'ld speak with the Duke of 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 ...
... I'ld say I had eyes again ! OLD MAN . EDG . How now ! Who's there ? [ Aside ] O gods ! Who is ' t can say " I am at the worst " ? I am worse than e'er I was . OLD MAN . EDG . " T is poor mad Tom . [ Aside ] And worse I may be yet : the ...