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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... answer ; " T is from your sister . [ Aside ] One way I like this well ; But being widow , and my Gloucester with her , May all the building in my fancy pluck Upon my hateful life : 12 another way , The news is not so tart . - I'll read ...