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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... fire and stink . A pestilent gall to me ! FOOL . Sirrah , I'll teach thee a speech . LEAR . Do. FOOL . Mark it , nuncle : Have more than thou showest , Speak less than thou knowest , Lend less than thou owest , 11 Ride more than thou ...
... fire ; and wast thou fain , poor father , To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn , In short and musty straw ? Alack , alack ! " T is wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all . He wakes ; speak to him . Madam , do ...
... fire us hence like foxes.3 Wipe thine eyes ; The good - years shall devour them , flesh and fell , 4 1. gilded butterflies ] fashionable courtiers . 2. packs and sects ] parties and factions ( of politicians ) . 3. fire us hence like ...