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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... means " in slippers , ” the natural footgear for sore heels . The Fool means that Lear has no brains , and thus will never need slippers . 3. crab ] crabapple . 4. her ] Cordelia . LEAR . I will forget my nature . - So ACTI - SCENE V 29 ...
... means he could — GLOU . EDM . Pursue him , ho ! -Go after . [ Exeunt some Servants . ] " By no means " what ? Persuade me to the murder of your lordship ; But that I told him the revenging gods ' Gainst parricides did all their thunders ...
... means , madam : Our foster - nurse of nature is repose , The which he lacks : that to provoke in him , Are many simples2 operative , whose power Will close the eye of anguish . All blest secrets , All you unpublish'd virtues of the ...