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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... kingdom , descending into madness Greed , treachery and cruelty are rife and the denouement of the play is both brutal and heartbreaking In fact , so troubling is its vision of man's life that , until the mid - 19th century , the play ...