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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... King of the Franks . This happy ending is similar to that of The True Chronicle History of King Leir , the most immediate source of Shakespeare's play , published in 1605. It has been suggested that Shakespeare's tragic ending was ...
... king , Loved as my father , as my master follow'd , As my great patron thought on in my prayers , - The bow is bent ... king ] titles of a king . 23. make from the shaft ] take the risk , come what may ( Lear is telling Kent , now that ...
... King Lear is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition , complete with explanatory foot- notes Unabridged Dover ( 1994 ) republication of King Lear from The Caxton Edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare , Vol ...