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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... brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ? 1 When my dimensions are as well compact , 2 My mind as generous and my ... brother ] Lagging behind a brother , i.e. , older than my brother . 2 . base ] " A base son " was a synonym for " a ...
... brother ! Brother , I advise you to the best : go armed : I am no honest man if there be any good meaning towards you : I have told you what I have seen and heard ; but faintly , nothing like the image and horror of it : pray you , away ...
... brother ; And I have one thing , of a queasy question , 2 Which I must act : briefness and fortune , work ! Brother , a word ; descend : brother , I say ! Enter EDGAR [ Exit . ] 1. ear - kissing arguments ] expressions that lightly ...