King Lear (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1608
- Type of Work: Tragic Drama
- Genres: Drama, History play, Tragedy
- Subjects: Parents and children, Blindness or blind persons, Betrayal, Mental illness, Fathers, Sisters, Kings, queens, or royalty, Greed, Cruelty, Great Britain, First century
- Locales: England
King Lear, weary of rule, divides his kingdom among his three daughters, but he disowns his youngest and favorite, Cordelia, when she refuses to speak her love. The King of France, her suitor, loyally weds her.
Lear’s two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, prove niggardly in their care of him; finally, accompanied only by his faithful Fool, he flees into a wild heath during a terrific storm. On the heath, he raves in a fit of inspired madness. Meanwhile, the two daughters plot against each other, and France invades England to rescue Lear. In the battle, Lear and Cordelia are...
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