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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... lady's going into France , sir , the fool hath much pined away . LEAR . No more of that ; I have noted it well . Go ... lady's father . My lady's father ! my lord's knave : you whoreson dog ! you slave ! you cur ! Osw . I am none of ...
... 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 my father ? I know not , madam : ' t is too bad , too bad . Yes , madam ...
... lady charged my duty in this business . Why should she write to Edmund ? Might not you Transport her purposes by word ? Belike , Something - I know not what : I'll love thee much , Let me unseal the letter . Madam , I had rather- I know ...