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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... sense ? He that helps him take all my outward worth . There is 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 ...