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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... bring away the stocks ! [ Stocks brought out . ] Let me beseech your grace not to do so : His fault is much , and the good king his master Will check him for ' t : your purposed low correction Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches ...
... bring him the best ' parel that I have , Come on ' t what will . GLOU . EDG . GLOU . EDG . GLOU . EDG . Sirrah , naked fellow , — Poor Tom's a - cold . [ Aside ] I cannot daub it further . Come hither , fellow . - [ Exit . ] [ Aside ] ...
... bring him to our eye . [ Exit an Officer . ] What can man's wisdom In the restoring his bereaved sense ? He that helps him take all my outward worth . There is means , madam : Our foster - nurse of nature is repose , The which he lacks ...