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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... fortune may grow out at heels : Give you good morrow ! GLOU . KENT . The duke's to blame in this ; ' t will be ill taken . Good king , that must approve the common saw , Thou out of heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun ! 21 ...
... fortune did not make us despise existence altogether , we should never resign ourselves to the hateful incidents of infirm age . In other words , the world with all its uncertainties of fortune is such a repellent object to us that it ...
... fortune brag of two she loved and hated , One of them we behold . This is a dull sight . Are you not Kent ? Your servant Kent . Where is your servant Caius ? He's a good fellow , I can tell you that ; He'll strike , and quickly too ...