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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... Arms , arms , sword , fire ! Corruption in the place ! False justicer , why hast thou let her ' scape ? Bless thy five wits ! O pity ! Sir , where is the patience now , That you so oft have boasted to retain ? [ Aside ] My tears begin ...
... arms ; GLOU . KENT . I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him : There is a litter ready ; lay him in ' t , And drive toward Dover , friend , where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection . Take up thy master : If thou shouldst ...
... arm and my best spirits are bent To prove upon thy heart , whereto I speak , Thou liest . In wisdom I should ask thy ... arms thou wast not bound to answer An unknown opposite ; thou art not vanquish'd , But cozen'd and beguiled . Shut ...