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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... Enter LEAR , KENT , and Fool KENT . Here is the place , my lord : good my lord , enter : The tyranny of the open night ' s too rough For nature to endure . [ Storm still . ] LEAR . Let me alone . KENT . Good my lord , enter here . LEAR ...
... Enter a Messenger 1. rank fumiter ... bur - docks ... cuckoo - flowers , Darnel ] Cf. Hen . V , V , ii , 44-46 : " her fallow leas The darnel , hemlock and rank fumitory Doth root upon . " " Fumiter " is a common sort of weed , of which ...
William Shakespeare. SCENE II - A Field Between the Two Camps Alarum within . Enter , with drum and colours , LEAR , CORDELIA , and Soldiers , over the stage ; and exeunt Enter EDGAR and GLOUCESTER EDG . Here , father , take the shadow ...