King LearOpen Road Media, 2020 M05 5 - 124 pages The story of a king who craves flattery—and the daughter who refuses him even at the cost of her own inheritance. King Lear wants nothing more than to be praised, and when he decides to divide his realm according to how much each of his daughters can impress him with their declarations of love, Goneril and Regan are quick to oblige. Only the youngest, Cordelia, cannot give him what he wants—and she is promptly cut out of his will. Lear’s decision will roil not only his family but his kingdom, for the political implications of the inheritance set off a tragic series of events as Lear’s madness grows. One of the theater’s greatest works, re-popularized most recently by the 2018 film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins, King Lear is a cornerstone of Western literature and a timeless story. |
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... true heart I find she names my very deed of love ; Only she comes too short : that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys , Which the most precious square of sense possesses ; And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness ...
... true heart I find she names my very deed of love ; Only she comes too short : that I profess Myself an enemy to all other joys , Which the most precious square of sense possesses ; And find I am alone felicitate In your dear highness ...
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... my care and duty: Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. KING LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay, good my lord. KING LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young , my lord , and true .
... my care and duty: Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. KING LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay, good my lord. KING LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young , my lord , and true .
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William Shakespeare. CORDELIA So young , my lord , and true . KING LEAR Let it be so ; thy truth , then , be thy dower : For , by the sacred radiance of the sun , The mysteries of Hecate , and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs ...
William Shakespeare. CORDELIA So young , my lord , and true . KING LEAR Let it be so ; thy truth , then , be thy dower : For , by the sacred radiance of the sun , The mysteries of Hecate , and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs ...
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... true blank of thine eye. KING LEAR Now, by Apollo,— KENT Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. KING LEAR O, vassal! miscreant! Laying his hand on his sword ALBANY CORNWALL Dear sir, forbear. Do: KENT Kill thy physician ...
... true blank of thine eye. KING LEAR Now, by Apollo,— KENT Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. KING LEAR O, vassal! miscreant! Laying his hand on his sword ALBANY CORNWALL Dear sir, forbear. Do: KENT Kill thy physician ...
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... true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the ...
... true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the ...
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