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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... poor as the king . If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a king , thou art poor enough . What wouldst thou ? KENT . Service . LEAR . Who wouldst thou serve ? KENT . You . LEAR . Dost thou know me , fellow ? 1. defuse ] disorder ...
... Poor Tom ! [ The Fool runs out from the hovel . ] Come not in here , nuncle , here's a spirit . Help me , help me ! Give me thy hand . Who's there ? A spirit , a spirit : he says his name's poor Tom . What art thou that dost grumble ...
... Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits . Bless thee , good man's son , from the foul fiend ! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once ; of lust , as Obidicut ; Hobbididence , prince of dumbness ; Mahu , of steal- ing ; Modo ...