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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... nuncle ! 10 Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters ! FOOL . LEAR . Why , my boy ? If I gave them all my living , I'ld keep my coxcombs myself . There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters . Take heed , sirrah ; the whip . Truth's a ...
... nuncle , ever since thou madest thy daughters thy mother : for when thou gavest them the rod and puttest down thine own breeches , [ Singing ] Then they for sudden joy did weep , And I for sorrow sung , That such a king should play bo ...
... Nuncle Lear , nuncle Lear , tarry ; take the fool with thee . A fox , when one has caught her , And such a daughter , Should sure to the slaughter , If my cap would buy a halter : So the fool follows after . This man hath had good ...