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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... brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ? 1 When my dimensions are as well compact , 2 My mind as generous and my ... brother ] Lagging behind a brother , i.e. , older than my brother . base ] " A base son " was a synonym for " a bastard ...
... brother's justification , he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue . GLOU . [ Reads ] : " This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times ; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot ...
... brother ; And I have one thing , of a queasy question , 2 Which I must act : briefness and fortune , work ! Brother , a word ; descend : brother , I say ! Enter EDGAR 1. ear - kissing arguments ] expressions that lightly touch the ear ...