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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... dead ! Who dead ? speak , man . Your lady , sir , your lady : and her sister By her is poisoned ; she hath confess'd it . I was contracted to them both : all three Now marry in an instant . Here comes Kent . Produce the bodies , be they ...
... dead and when one lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , 25 Why , then she lives . Is this the promised end ? Or image of that horror ? Fall and cease . This feather ...
... dead , my lord . ALB . you that ; He'll strike , and quickly too : he's dead and rotten . No , my good lord ; I am the very man — I'll see that straight . - That from your first of difference28 and decay Have follow'd your sad steps ...