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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... Stand in the plague of custom , and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me , For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ? 1 When my dimensions are as well compact , 2 My mind ...
... stand , rogue ; stand , you neat slave , strike . Osw . Help , ho ! murder ! murder ! [ Beating him . ] Enter EDMUND , with his rapier drawn , CORNWALL , REGAN , GLOUCES- TER , and Servants EDM . KENT . How now ! What's the matter ...
... Stand in hard cure ] Must prove difficult to cure . 13. free things ] things free of trouble . 14. bearing ] suffering . 15. bewray ] discover , reveal . SCENE VII - Gloucester's Castle CORN . Enter CORNWALL , ACT III - SCENE VI 71 King ...