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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... trumpet's that ? I know't ; my sister's : this approves 20 her letter , That she would soon be here . Is your lady come ? Enter OSWALD LEAR . CORN . LEAR . This is a slave whose easy - borrow'd pride Dwells in the fickle grace of her he ...
... trumpet sound For him that brought it : wretched though I seem , I can produce a champion that will prove What is avouched there . If you miscarry , Your business of the world hath so an end , And machination ceases . Fortune love you ...
... trumpet sound : If none appear to prove upon thy person Thy heinous , manifest , and many treasons , There is my pledge [ throwing down a glove ] : I'll prove it on thy heart , Ere I taste bread , thou art in nothing less Than I have ...