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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... nature can reason it thus and thus , yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond ...
... nature : 15 he cannot flatter , he , - An honest mind and plain , — he must speak truth An they will take it , so ... nature ] his frankness conceals a deceitful nature . 16. misconstruction ] misapprehension . 17. conjunct ] in concert ...
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life's as cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous , Why , nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st , Which scarcely keeps thee warm . But for true need , — You ...