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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... stocks for that question , thou hadst well deserved it . KENT . FOOL . Why , fool ? We'll set thee to school to an ant , to teach thee there's no labouring i ' the winter . All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men ...
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