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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... father , with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you : I know you what you are ; And , like a sister , am most loath to call Your faults as they are named . Use well our father : To your professed bosoms I commit him : But yet , alas , stood I ...
... Father , father ! Stop , stop ! No help ? Enter GLOUCESTER , and Servants with torches GLOU . Now , Edmund , where's the villain ? EDM . GLOU . Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out , Mumbling of wicked charms , conjuring the ...
... father's godson seek your life ? He whom my father named ? your Edgar ? O , lady , lady , shame would have it hid ! GLOU . REG . GLOU . REG . GLOU . EDM . REG . CORN . Was he not companion with the riotous knights That tend upon my upon ...