King LearThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 226 pages King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. When his youngest and favorite daughter refuses to compete and perform her love for him, he is enraged and disowns her. She remains loyal to him, however, though he slides into madness and his other children betray him. |
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William Shakespeare. For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand ...
William Shakespeare. For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand ...
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... brother that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much as I have perus'd, I find it not fit for your o'erlooking ... brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Glou. (Reads) 'This policy and reverence ...
... brother that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much as I have perus'd, I find it not fit for your o'erlooking ... brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Glou. (Reads) 'This policy and reverence ...
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... brother, 'EDGAR.' Hum! Conspiracy?—'Sleep till I waked him,—you should enjoy half his revenue.'—My son Edgar! Had he ... brother's? Edm. If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear it were his; but in respect of that, I would fain ...
... brother, 'EDGAR.' Hum! Conspiracy?—'Sleep till I waked him,—you should enjoy half his revenue.'—My son Edgar! Had he ... brother's? Edm. If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear it were his; but in respect of that, I would fain ...
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... brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course; where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces ...
... brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course; where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces ...
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... finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes 33.
... finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes 33.
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