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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... beggars who often roamed the country- side ; Bedlam refers to the London insane asylum at the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem . 14. a sectary astronomical ] a devotee of astronomy . EDM . EDG . EDM . EDG . EDM . ACTI - SCENE II 15 ...
... beggars ] half - crazy beggars , strictly applied to mendicant patients discharged from Bethlehem or Bedlam hospital , but often generally applied to pauper idiots . 2. wooden pricks ] skewers of wood . 3. object ] appearance . 4 ...
William Shakespeare. LEAR . O , reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : 28 Allow not nature more than nature needs , Man's life's as cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were ...