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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... madam . GON . Osw . GON . Osw . GON . By day and night he wrongs me ; every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other , That sets us all at odds : I'll not endure it : His knights grow riotous , and himself upbraids us On every ...
... madam : ' t is too bad , too bad . Yes , madam , he was of that consort . No marvel then , though he were ill affected : " T is they have put him on the old man's death , To have the waste and spoil of his revenues . I have this present ...
... madam , is o'erpaid . All my reports go with the modest truth , Nor more nor clipp'd , but so . Be better suited : 1 These weeds are memories of those worser hours : I prithee , put them off . Pardon me , dear madam ; Yet to be known ...