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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... from the shaft ] take the risk , come what may ( Lear is telling Kent , now that he's gone so far , to finish his speech ) . 24. fork ] arrowhead . LEAR . KENT . And in thy best consideration check ACTI - SCENE I 5 King Lear.
... Gone , sir : farewell . And yet I know not how conceit may rob The treasury of life , when life itself Yields to the theft : had he been where he thought , By this had thought been past . Alive or dead ? Ho , you sir ! friend ! Hear you ...
... gone for ever : I know when one is dead and when one lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , 25 Why , then she lives . Is this the promised end ? Or image of that ...