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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... daughter ? So please you , - . [ Exit . ] LEAR . What says the fellow there ? Call the clotpoll + back . [ Exit a Knight . ] Where's my fool , ho ? I think the world's asleep . Re - enter Knight How now ! where's that mongrel ? KNIGHT ...
... daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter . If your diligence be not speedy , I shall be there afore you . KENT . I will not sleep , my lord , till I have delivered your letter . [ Exit ...
... daughters ? and art thou come to Who gives any thing to poor Tom ? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame , through ford and whirlpool , o'er bog and quagmire ; that hath laid knives under his pillow and halters in ...