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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... villain , villain ! His very opinion in the letter ! Abhorred villain ! Unnatural , detested , brutish villain ! worse than brutish ! Go , sirrah , seek him ; ay , apprehend him : abominable villain ! Where is he ? I do not well know ...
... villain of mine comes under the prediction ; there's son against father : the king falls from bias of nature ; there's father against child . We have seen the best of our time : machinations , hollowness , treachery and all ruinous ...
... villain ? EDM . Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out , Mumbling of wicked charms , conjuring the moon To stand's auspicious mistress . But where is he ? GLOU . EDM . Look , sir , I bleed . GLOU . Where is the villain , Edmund ...