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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... thing superfluous : 28 Allow not nature more than nature needs , Man's life's as cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ... things , - What they are , yet I know not , but they shall be The terrors of the earth . You think I'll weep ; No , I ...
... things might change or cease ; tears his white hair , Which the impetuous blasts , with eyeless rage , Catch in their fury , and make nothing of ... thing ] an urgent , desperate matter . GENT . KENT . Although as yet the face of 55.
... things ] things free of trouble . 14. bearing ] suffering . 15. bewray ] discover , reveal . SCENE VII - Gloucester's Castle CORN . Enter CORNWALL , ACT III - SCENE VI 71 King Lear.