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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... keep a well - controlled distance , a restrained aloofness , deliberately keep away ( from him ) . 16. All with me's meet ... fit ] With me every device that I can adapt to my purpose is fair game . SCENE III - The Duke of Albany's ...
... keep my coxcombs myself . There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters . Take heed , sirrah ; the whip . Truth's a dog must to kennel ; he must be whipped out , when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink . A pestilent gall to me ...
... keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie : I would fain learn to lie . LEAR . FOOL . I marvel what kin ... keeps nor crust nor crumb , Weary of all , shall want some . [ Pointing to Lear ] That's a shealed peascod . 19 Not only ...