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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... DUKE OF CORNWALL . DUKE OF ALBANY . EARL OF KENT . EARL OF GLOUCESTER . EDGAR , son to Gloucester . EDMUND , bastard son to Gloucester . CURAN , a courtier . Old Man , tenant to Gloucester . Doctor . Fool . OSWALD , steward to Goneril ...
... Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him this night . How comes that ? Nay , I know not . You have heard of the news abroad , I mean the whispered ones , for they are yet but ear - kissing arguments ? 1 Not I : pray ...
... duke " ? Tell the hot duke that- No , but not yet : may be he is not well : Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound ; we are not ourselves When nature being oppress'd commands the mind To suffer with the body ...