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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... course , With reservation of an hundred knights By you to be sustain'd , shall our abode Make with you by due turns . Only we still retain The name and all the additions to a king ; 22 The sway , revenue , execution of the rest ...
... course of action ; if our father asserts his authority in such headstrong temper as he now shows , this final surrender to us of his kingdom will merely breed trouble for us . 45. i ' the heat ] now ; as in the proverb , “ Strike while ...
... . 10. My point and period ... fought ] The aim and end of my life will be fully attained for either good or ill in the course of this day's battle . ACT V SCENE I - The British Camp Near Dover 102 William Shakespeare.