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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... Turn out that eyeless villain : throw this slave Upon the dunghill . Regan , I bleed apace : Untimely comes this hurt : give me your arm . [ Exit Cornwall , led by Regan . ] SEC . SERV . I'll never care what wickedness I do , If this ...
... turn'd the wrong side out : 2 What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him ; What like , offensive . 1. sot ] fool . [ To Edm . ] Then shall you go no further . It is the cowish terror of his spirit , That dares not undertake : he ...
... turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong . Set me where you stand . Give me your hand : you are now within a foot Of the extreme verge : for all beneath the moon Would I not leap upright . Let go my hand . Here , friend , ' s ...