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King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of King Leir of Britain. It has been widely adapted for stage and screen, with the part of Lear being played by many of the world's most accomplished actors.Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece. There are many superstitions centred on the belief the play is somehow "cursed", and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish play".

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KENT.I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.GLOUCESTER.It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which ofthe Dukes he values most, for qualities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can makechoice of either’s moiety.KENT.Is not this your son, my lord?GLOUCESTER.His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often blush’d to acknowledge him thatnow I am braz’d to’t.KENT.I cannot conceive you.GLOUCESTER.Sir, this young fellow’s mother could; whereupon she grew round-wombed, and hadindeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?KENT.I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.GLOUCESTER.But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in myaccount: though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yetwas his mother fair; there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must beacknowledged. Do you know this noble gentleman, Edmund?EDMUND.No, my lord.GLOUCESTER.My Lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my honourable friend.EDMUND.My services to your lordship.KENT.I must love you, and sue to know you better.EDMUND.Sir, I shall study deserving.GLOUCESTER.He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again. The King is coming.