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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... King of the Franks . This happy ending is similar to that of The True Chronicle History of King Leir , the most immediate source of Shakespeare's play , published in 1605. It has been suggested that Shakespeare's tragic ending was ...
... king his master Will check him for ' t : your purposed low correction Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches For pilferings and most common trespasses Are punish'd with : the king must take it ill , That he , so slightly valued in ...
... king , or something deeper , Whereof perchance these are but furnishings , 6 But true it is , from France there comes a power7 Into this scatter'd kingdom ; who already , Wise in our negligence , have secret feet3 In some of our best ...