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 ? Would I had two IOO coxcombs and two daughters ! Lear. Why, my boy ? Fool. If I gave them all my living, I 'Id keep my coxcombs myself. There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters. Lear. Take heed, sirrah ; the whip. 105 98 ...
... nuncle the original mine uncle was reanalysed so that the -n was no longer seen as the end of the possessive pronoun mine but as the beginning of the following word , hence mine + uncle > my nuncle . ( 3 ) Latin argent - um ' silver ...
... nuncle , keep a school - master that can teach Fool . Dost thou know the difference , my boy , thou'lt have me whipped for lying , and sometimes between a bitter fool and a sweet fool ? And from her derogate body never spring A babe to.