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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... true , 44. let's hit together ... offend us ] let's join together in our course of action ; if our father asserts his authority in such headstrong temper as he now shows , this final surrender to us of his kingdom will merely breed ...
... true , thou'lt have me whipped for lying , and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace . I had rather be any kind o ' thing than a fool : and yet I would not be thee , nuncle ; thou hast pared thy wit o ' both sides and left nothing ...
... true , sir , that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain ? Most certain , sir . Who is conductor of his people ? As ' t is said , the bastard son of Gloucester . They say Edgar , his banished son , is with the Earl of Kent in Germany . KENT ...