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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... bear , But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea Thou'ldst meet the bear i ' the mouth . When the mind's free The body's delicate : the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else 2. a fair deserving ] an action ...
... bear thy master ; Thou must not stay behind . Come , come , away . [ Exeunt all but Edgar . ] When we our betters see bearing our woes , We scarcely think our miseries our foes . Who alone suffers suffers most i ' the mind , Leaving ...
... bear would lick , Most barbarous , most degenerate ! have you madded . Could my good brother suffer you to do it ? A ... bear ] the bear dragged about by a cord round its head , and thereby infuriated . ALB . GON . ALB . GON . That bear ...