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 . Give me your hand : you are now within a foot Of the extreme verge : for all beneath the moon Would I not leap upright . Let go my hand . Here , friend , ' s another purse ; in it a jewel Well worth a poor man's taking : fairies ...