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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1422 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
King Lear
King Lear
King Lear the aging King of Britain, has decided to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. First he puts his daughters through a sort of test, asking each to tell him just how much each daughter loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lear's older daughters, give their father flattering answers. But Cordelia, Lear's youngest and favorite daughter, remains silent, saying that she …showed first 75 words of 1422 total…
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King Lear is a tragedy.
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies. Written around the year 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, it is usually ranked with those two plays, and with Hamlet, as one of Shakespeare's "great" tragedies. Some critics feel that King Lear is in fact Shakespeare's best tragedy, or even his best play. King Lear is less often performed than these other tragedies, and is also less often studied.
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