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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... wind blow the earth into the sea , Or swell the curled waters ' bove the main , 1 That things might change or cease ; tears his white hair , Which the impetuous blasts , with eyeless rage , Catch in their fury , and make nothing of ...
... wind and the rain , - Must make content with his fortunes fit , For the rain it raineth every day . 10. simular ] simulating . 11. seeming ] hypocrisy . 12. art ] alchemy . LEAR . FOOL . True , my good boy . ACT III - SCENE II 59 King Lear.
... wind up Of this child - changed father ! So please your majesty That we may wake the king : he hath slept long . Be govern'd by your knowledge , and proceed I ' the sway of your own will . Is he array'd ? GENT . Ay , madam ; in the ...