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King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780743482769
ISBN: 074348276X
Label: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Studio: Washington Square Press
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Essay by Susan Snyder
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - All's cheerless, dark and deadly
Lear starts his tragedy with a lie. He has divided his kingdom into one larger and two smaller equal parts and promises to give the larger part to that of his daughters who vows the strongest love for him. Yet after Goneril speaks he immediately awards her one of the smaller parts, instead of listening to her sisters and then deciding the fate of the largest bounty. He thus negates his word and turns the auction into a formality for his pre-arranged plan of giving Cordelia the largest part and her ... Read More
Rating: - The tragedy of Lear.
I recently re-read KING LEAR prior to attending The Denver Theatre Company's performance of this play. Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote this emotionally-moving tragedy between 1603 and 1606, and it was performed for the first time in 1606. With its insights into the nature of human suffering and kinship, and its theme of human blindness, it is regarded as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
KING LEAR is based on the legend of King Leir, a king of pre-Roman Britain. It tells the story ... Read More
Rating: - King Lear: a book of justice and evil
Betrayals, romance, and death: the book King Lear has it all. This book is written by William Shakespeare, who is a famous author of his day and still is well-known throughout the world. William Shakespeare writes during the Renaissance period which he fully lived up to. He could be said to be philosopher by saying his thoughts of life, love, justice, and other morals of man through his works of literature. My opinion is he expressed his opinions of love and justice in the book, King Lear.
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Rating: - One of Shakespeare's Finest
This was one of my favorite Shakespeare tragedies because despite Lear bringing the misfortune on himself, the reader truly does feel for sorry for him. When Cordelia could not declare her love to Lear like her sisters did, he takes this as a lack of love for him. Of course it wasn't, but Lear's desperate neccesity for admiration from those around eventually becomes his downfall.
While all of that action is going on, Gloucester's illegitimate son, Edmund is on the rise to power, hoping ... Read More
Rating:  - King Lear
This Shakespeare play was a more difficult story line to follow. There were a lot of seperate plots happening at once. i did enjoy it however because Shakespeare keeps it interesting with lots of humor and violence. Shakespeare's fundamental elements of hidden identities and deception run rampant in the twisting and turning story line.
The story follows the life of King Lear who makes a some what bizarre decision to split up his kingdom between his three daughters before he dies instead ... Read More
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