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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... Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once ; of lust , as Obidicut ; Hobbididence , prince of dumbness ; Mahu , of steal- ing ; Modo , of murder ; Flibbertigibbet , 7 of mopping and mowing ; 8 who since possesses chambermaids and waiting ...
... FIVE GREAT ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS , Dover . 496pp . 27893 - X FIVE GREAT PLAYS , Dover . 368pp . 27179 - X 47 GREAT SHORT STORIES : Stories by Poe , Chekhov , Maupassant , Gogol , O. Henry , and Twain , Dover . 688pp . 27178-1 GREAT ...