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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 15
... live in tongues , Nor cutpurses come not to throngs ; When usurers tell their gold i ' the field , And bawds and ... live before his time . [ Exit . ] SCENE III - Gloucester's Castle Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND GLOU . EDM . Alack , alack ...
... live and work , To match thy goodness ? My life will be too short , And every measure fail me . KENT . COR . KENT . COR . DOCT . COR . DOCT . COR . To be acknowledged , madam , is o'erpaid . All my reports go with the modest truth , Nor ...
... lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , 25 Why , then she lives . Is this the promised end ? Or image of that horror ? Fall and cease . This feather stirs ; she lives ...