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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... wind sits , thou'lt catch cold shortly : there , take my coxcomb : why , this fellow hath banished two on's daugh- ters , and done the third a blessing against his will ; if thou follow him , thou must needs wear my coxcomb . How now ...
... wind blow the earth into the sea , Or swell the curled waters ' bove the main , 1 That things might change or cease ; tears his white hair , Which the impetuous blasts , with eyeless rage , Catch in their fury , and make nothing of ...
... wind and rain , I never Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction nor the fear . Let the great gods , That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads , Find out their enemies now . Tremble , thou wretch , That hast ...