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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... sword upon you : 3 Draw : seem to defend yourself : now quit you well . Yield : come before my father . Light , ho , here ! Fly , brother . Torches , torches ! So farewell . Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion + [ Exit Edgar ...
... sword To his great master ; who thereat enraged Flew on him and amongst them fell'd him dead , But not without that harmful stroke which since 7. Who hast not ... mischief ] Whose eyes are not able to distinguish the injury to honour in ...
... sword , this arm and my best spirits are bent To prove upon thy heart , whereto I speak , Thou liest . In wisdom I should ask thy name , But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes ...