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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... knave , I thank thee : there's earnests of thy service . Enter Fool [ Giving Kent money . ] FOOL . Let me hire him too : here's my coxcomb.9 [ Offering Kent his cap . ] LEAR . How now , my pretty knave ! how dost thou ? 6. faint ...
... knave ; a rascal ; an eater of broken meats ; a base , proud , shallow , beggarly , three - suited , hundred - pound , filthy , worsted- stocking3 knave ; a lily - livered action - taking knave ; a whoreson , glass - gazing ...
... knave . GLOU . KENT . No contraries hold more antipathy CORN . KENT . Why dost thou call him knave ? What is his fault ? His countenance likes me not . 9. zed ... letter ] According to Ben Jonson's English Grammar , “ Zed is a letter ...