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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... falls off , brothers divide : in cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond cracked ' twixt son and father . This villain of mine comes under the prediction ; there's son against father : the king falls ...
... fall On her ingrateful top ! Strike her young bones , 16 You taking airs , 17 with lameness . Fie , sir , fie ! You nimble lightnings , dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes . Infect her beauty , You fen - suck'd fogs , drawn ...
... fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills , My snuff and loathed part of nature should Burn itself out . If Edgar live , O bless him ! Now , fellow , fare thee well . [ He falls forward . ] Gone , sir : farewell . And yet I know ...