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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... head bit off by it young.2 So out went the candle , and we were left darkling.21 Are you our daughter ? Come , sir , I would you would make use of that good wisdom , Whereof I know you are fraught , and put away These dispositions that ...
... head - lugg'd bear would lick , Most barbarous , most degenerate ! have you madded . Could my good brother suffer ... head - lugg'd bear ] the bear dragged about by a cord round its head , and thereby infuriated . ALB . GON . ALB . GON ...
... head ; With the hell - hated 19 lie o'erwhelm thy heart ; Which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise . This sword of mine shall give them instant way , Where they shall rest for ever . Trumpets , speak ! ALB . Save him , save him ...