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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... death ! confusion ! Fiery ? what quality ? Why , Gloucester , Gloucester , I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife . Well , my good lord , I have inform'd them so . Inform'd them ! Dost thou understand me , man ? Ay , my good ...
... death and business I can tell . GLOU . The king is mad : how stiff is my vile sense , That I stand up , and have ... death - practised ] whose death is plotted . 41. ingenious feeling ] lively consciousness . SCENE VII - A Tent in the ...
... death would hourly die Rather than die at once ! 21 - taught me to shift Into a madman's rags , to assume a semblance That very dogs disdain'd : and in this habit Met I my father with his bleeding rings , 22 Their precious stones new ...