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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... REGAN , and Servants LEAR . Good morrow to you both . CORN . REG . LEAR . REG . LEAR . REG . Hail to your grace ! [ Kent is set at liberty . ] I am glad to see your highness . Regan , I think you are ; I know what reason I have to think ...
... Regan : She hath abated me of half my train ; Look'd black upon me ; struck me with her tongue , Most serpent - like , upon the very heart : All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top ! Strike her young bones , 16 ...
... Regan , led . ] Enter a Herald 11. in thine attaint ] in connection with thy impeachment . 12. An interlude ! ] A farce is on foot ! 13. I'll ne'er trust medicine ] Goneril has poisoned Regan . 14. thy single virtue ] thy personal ...