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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... sisters . COR . REG . GON . COR . FRANCE . GON . REG . GON . The jewels of our father , with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you : I know you what you are ; And , like a sister , am most loath to call Your faults as they are named . Use ...
... sister is now a widow and Edmund , whom she calls by his father's title , “ my Gloucester , " is in her sister's company , she fears that the design of killing her own husband and marrying Edmund herself may be foiled , and that the ...
... sister Should loosen him and me . Our very loving sister , well be - met . Sir , this I hear ; the king is come to his daughter , With others whom the rigour of our state Forced to cry out . Where I could not be honest , I never yet was ...