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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... hast sought to make us break our vow,— Which we durst never yet,—and with strain'd pride To come between our sentence and our power,— Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,— Our potency made good, take thy reward. Five days we do ...
... hast sought to make us break our vow,— Which we durst never yet,—and with strain'd pride To come between our sentence and our power,— Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,— Our potency made good, take thy reward. Five days we do ...
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... hast most rightly said! ( T o Regan and Goneril.) And your large speeches may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love.— Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu; He'll shape his old course in a country new ...
... hast most rightly said! ( T o Regan and Goneril.) And your large speeches may your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love.— Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu; He'll shape his old course in a country new ...
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... hast her, France: let her be thine; for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again—Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.— Come, noble Burgundy. (Flourish. ExeuntLear, Burgundy, Cornwall ...
... hast her, France: let her be thine; for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again—Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.— Come, noble Burgundy. (Flourish. ExeuntLear, Burgundy, Cornwall ...
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... All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. Kent. This is not altogether fool, my lord. Fool. No, faith; lords and great men will not let me: if I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't and loads too: 53.
... All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. Kent. This is not altogether fool, my lord. Fool. No, faith; lords and great men will not let me: if I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't and loads too: 53.
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