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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... suffers suffers most i ' the mind , Leaving free things13 and happy shows behind : But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip , When grief hath mates , and bearing14 fellowship . How light and portable my pain seems now , When that ...
... suffer you to do it ? A man , a prince , by him so benefited ! If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences , It will come , Humanity must perforce prey on itself , Like monsters of the ...
... suffering ; that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd Ere they have done their mischief.7 Where's thy drum ? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land , With plumed helm thy state begins to threat , Whiles ...