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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... fire and through flame , through ford and whirlpool , o'er bog and quagmire ; that hath laid knives under his pillow and halters in his pew ; set ratsbane by his porridge ; made him proud of heart , to ride on a bay trotting - horse ...
... fire in a wild field were like an old lecher's heart , a small spark , all the rest on's body cold . Look , here comes a walking fire . Enter GLOUCESTER , with a torch EDG . This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet : 13 he begins at ...
... fire ; and wast thou fain , poor father , To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn , In short and musty straw ? Alack , alack ! " T is wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all . He wakes ; speak to him . Madam , do ...