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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... hast within thee undivulged crimes , Unwhipp'd of justice : hide thee , thou bloody hand ; Thou perjured , and thou simulaṛ10 man of virtue That art incestuous : caitiff , to pieces shake , That under covert and convenient seeming11 Hast ...
... hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honour from thy suffering ; that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd Ere they have done their mischief.7 Where's thy drum ? France spreads his banners in our noiseless ...
... hast this fortune on me ? If thou ' rt noble , I do forgive thee . Let's exchange charity . I am no less in blood than thou art , Edmund ; If more , the more thou hast wrong'd me . My name is Edgar , and thy father's son . The gods are ...