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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... live , O bless him ! Now , fellow , fare thee well . [ He falls forward . ] Gone , sir : farewell . And yet I know not how conceit5 may rob The treasury of life , when life itself Yields to the theft : had he been where he thought , By ...
... live and work , To match thy goodness ? My life will be too short , And every measure fail me . KENT . COR . KENT . COR . DOCT . COR . DOCT . COR . To be acknowledged , madam , is o'erpaid . All my reports go with the modest truth , Nor ...
... see so much , nor live so long . [ Exeunt , with a dead march . ] 30. my poor fool ] a common term of endearment , here applied by Lear to Cordelia . PLAYS LIFE IS A DREAM , Pedro Calderón de la 118 William Shakespeare.