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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... thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd , So may it come , thy master whom thou lovest Shall find thee full ... art thou ? KENT . A man , sir . LEAR . KENT . LEAR . What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ? I do ...
... thou madest thy daughters thy mother : for when thou gavest them the rod and puttest down thine own breeches ... art an O without a figure : 18 I am better than thou art now ; I am a fool , thou art nothing . [ To Gon . ] Yes , forsooth ...
... art thou That hast this fortune on me ? If thou ' rt noble , I do forgive thee . Let's exchange charity . I am no less in blood than thou art , Edmund ; If more , the more thou hast wrong'd me . My name is Edgar , and thy father's son ...