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King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton
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##最简单最真实的一段人性
评分The oldest hath borne most; we that are young. Shall never see so much, nor live so long- Edgar
评分The oldest hath borne most; we that are young. Shall never see so much, nor live so long- Edgar
评分##Nothing, subversive nature, illusion, madness. Death as resolution to nothing.
评分##元素真是太丰富了 怎一个惨字了得
评分##莎翁嘛，你知道的，讲这说那的。这本没那么好懂了
评分##为了S&A第三季（对着nofearshakespeare）看了第一本莎士比亚原文。Text的确艰深，但如果读出声而不是用眼看的话语感真是无与伦比……
评分##"A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue/ That I am glad I have not, though not to have it/ Hath lost me in your liking."
评分##莎翁嘛，你知道的，讲这说那的。这本没那么好懂了
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