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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... foul fiend follows me ! Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind . Hum ! go to thy cold bed and warm thee . Hast thou given all to thy two daughters ? and art thou come to Who gives any thing to poor Tom ? whom the foul fiend hath ...
... foul fiend . " Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind . " Says suum , mun , ha , no , nonny . Dolphin my boy , my boy , sessa ! let him trot by . [ Storm still . ] Why , thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy ...
... foul fiend . FOOL . LEAR . Prithee , nuncle , tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman . FOOL . LEAR A king , a king ! No , he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son , for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman ...