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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... draw my sword upon you : 3 Draw : seem to defend yourself : now quit you well . Yield : come before my father . Light , ho , here ! Fly , brother . Torches , torches ! So farewell . Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion + [ Exit ...
... Draw , you rogue : for , though it be night , yet the moon shines ; I'll make a sop o ' the moonshine of you : draw , you whore- son cullionly barber - monger , 7 draw . [ Drawing his sword . ] Osw . KENT . Osw . Away ! I have nothing ...
... draw thee after . When a wise man gives thee better counsel , give me mine again : I would have none but knaves follow it , since a fool gives it . KENT . That sir which serves and seeks for gain , And follows but for form , Will pack ...