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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... hand ? Why not by the hand , sir ? How have I offended ? All's not offence that indiscretion finds22 And dotage terms so . O sides , you are too tough ; Will you yet hold ? How came my man i ' the stocks ? CORN . I set him there , sir ...
... hand : you are now within a foot Of the extreme verge : for all beneath the moon Would I not leap upright . Let go my hand . Here , friend , ' s another purse ; in it a jewel Well worth a poor man's taking : fairies and gods Prosper it ...
... hand ; away ! King Lear hath lost , he and his daughter ta'en : Give me thy hand ; come on . No further , sir ; a man may rot even here . What , in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence , even as their coming hither ...