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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... storm . [ Storm and tempest . ] This house is little : the old man and his people Cannot be well bestow'd . CORN . REG . GON . " T is his own blame ; hath put himself from rest , And must needs taste his folly . REG . GON . CORN . For ...
... storm . [ Exeunt . ] 29. He is attended ... train ] Regan appears to falsify the present facts . Lear departs unattended by any train of followers . The fool is now the king's only companion . ACT III SCENE I - A Heath Storm still . ACT ...
... [ Storm still . ] LEAR . Let me alone . KENT . Good my lord , enter here . LEAR . Wilt break my heart ? KENT . LEAR . I had rather break mine own . Good my lord , enter . Thou think'st ' t is much that this contentious storm Invades us to ...