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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... hold when a great wheel runs down a hill , lest it break thy neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up the hill , let him draw thee after . When a wise man gives thee better counsel , give me mine again : I would have none ...
... hold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office . Thou rascal beadle , hold thy bloody hand ! Why dost thou lash that whore ? Strip thine own back ; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whip'st her ...
... hold your hands in benediction o'er me . No , sir , you must not kneel . Pray , do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man , Fourscore and upward , not an hour more nor less ; And , to deal plainly , I fear I am not in my perfect ...