![]() ![]() ![]() This is, of course, Shakespeare, so we expect great poetry. King Lear is also a work of great literary beauty, and that’s what I want to focus on. It is a story about pain and stupidity and the cruelty of being a human being, prone to failure. It is a lot like the Book of Job in the Bible in which the central character rails at the unfairness of life. It is a play filled with murders and hangings and a suicide and not one but two eyes being ripped out. This is a play about loyalty and disloyalty, about parents and children, about wisdom and foolishness, and about the many forms of madness - arrogance, greed, anger, ambition, dementia and pride. To his third and dearest daughter, he gives nothing. ![]() Talk about Shakespeare’s great King Lear tends to focus on the action of the play and its meaning.Ī self-satisfied monarch, blind to the consequences of his actions, splits his realm in two, giving half to one daughter and half to the other. ![]()
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