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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... grace, health, beauty, honour; As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much I love you. Cor. (Aside. ) What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. Lear ...
... grace, health, beauty, honour; As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much I love you. Cor. (Aside. ) What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. Lear ...
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... grace, She's there, and she is yours. Bur. I know no answer. Lear. Will you, with those infirmities she owes, Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate, Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath, Take her, or leave her? Bur. Pardon ...
... grace, She's there, and she is yours. Bur. I know no answer. Lear. Will you, with those infirmities she owes, Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate, Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath, Take her, or leave her? Bur. Pardon ...
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... grace and favour; But even for want of that for which I am richer,— A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not, though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking. Lear. Better thou Hadst not been born than not to ...
... grace and favour; But even for want of that for which I am richer,— A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not, though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking. Lear. Better thou Hadst not been born than not to ...
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... grace, our love, our benison.— Come, noble Burgundy. (Flourish. ExeuntLear, Burgundy, Cornwall, Albany, Gloster, and Attendants.) France. Bid farewell to your sisters. Cor. The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you ...
... grace, our love, our benison.— Come, noble Burgundy. (Flourish. ExeuntLear, Burgundy, Cornwall, Albany, Gloster, and Attendants.) France. Bid farewell to your sisters. Cor. The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you ...
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... let him be whipped that first finds it so. (Singing. ) Fools had ne'er less grace in a year; For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear, Their manners are so apish. Lear. When were you wont to be so full of 54.
... let him be whipped that first finds it so. (Singing. ) Fools had ne'er less grace in a year; For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear, Their manners are so apish. Lear. When were you wont to be so full of 54.
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