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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William Shakespeare. LEAR . Thou hast her , France : let her be thine , for we Have no such daughter , nor shall ever see That face of hers again . Therefore be gone Without our grace , our love , our benison.41 Come , noble Burgundy ...
... hast within thee undivulged crimes , Unwhipp'd of justice : hide thee , thou bloody hand ; Thou perjured , and thou simular1o man of virtue That art incestuous : caitiff , to pieces shake , That under covert and convenient seeming11 Hast ...
William Shakespeare. GLOU . EDG . Hast heavy substance ; bleed'st not ; speak'st ; art sound . Ten masts at each7 make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell : Thy life's a miracle . Speak yet again . But have I fall'n ...