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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... dear lord , You know the fiery quality of the duke ; How unremoveable and fix'd he is In his own course . Vengeance ! plague ! death ! confusion ! Fiery ? what quality ? Why , Gloucester , Gloucester , I'ld speak with the Duke of ...
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... dear father ! Restoration hang Thy medicine on my lips , and let this kiss Repair those violent harms that my two sisters Have in thy reverence made ! Kind and dear princess ! Had you not been their father , these white flakes3 Had ...