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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... there's son against father : the king falls from bias of nature ; there's father against child . We have seen the best of our time : machinations , hollowness , treachery and all ruinous disor- ders follow us disquietly to our graves ...
... there's no labouring i ' the winter . All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men ; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking . Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill , lest ...
... there , and there again , and there . [ Storm still . ] FOOL . LEAR . KENT . LEAR . EDG . FOOL . EDG . What , have his daughters brought him to this pass ? Couldst thou save nothing ? Didst thou give them all ? Nay , he reserved a ...