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 23
... master , Stocking his messenger . Fetch forth the stocks ! As I have life and honour , There shall he sit till noon . Till noon ! till night , my lord , and all night too . Why , madam , if I were your father's dog , You should not use ...
... master ? KENT . Here , sir ; but trouble him not : his wits are gone . Good friend , I prithee , take him in thy arms ; GLOU . KENT . I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him : There is a litter ready ; lay him in ' t , And drive ...
... master ! GLOU . Here , take this purse , thou whom the heavens ' plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched EDG . GLOU . EDG . Makes thee the happier . Heavens , deal so still ! Let the superfluous and lust - dieted man ...