King LearBlow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man! |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingNot my favourite play, but I did read it for completeness. A king, worn down by the trammells of office, divides his domain among his children and suffers from the flaws in his parenting. He is ... Read full review
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User Review - thornton37814 - LibraryThingThis full-cast audio recording tells the story of King Lear who unwisely divided his inheritance based on his perception of how much each daughter loved him. We see how this leads to a life of ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | King Lear |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Books on Demand, 2019 |
| ISBN | 3749436193, 9783749436194 |
| Length | 105 pages |
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