King Lear
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About This Book
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the ot...
Chapters (28)
- THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR
- Scene: - Britain.
- ACT I. Scene I. [King Lear's Palace.]
- Scene II. The Earl of Gloucester's Castle.
- Scene III. The Duke of Albany's Palace.
- Scene IV. The Duke of Albany's Palace.
- Scene V. Court before the Duke of Albany's Palace.
- ACT II. Scene I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester.
- Scene II. Before Gloucester's Castle.
- Scene III. The open country.
- Scene IV. Before Gloucester's Castle; Kent in the stocks.
- ACT III. Scene I. A heath.
- Scene II. Another part of the heath.
- Scene III. Gloucester's Castle.
- Scene IV. The heath. Before a hovel.
- Scene VI. A farmhouse near Gloucester's Castle.
- Scene VII. Gloucester's Castle.
- ACT IV. Scene I. The heath.
- Scene II. Before the Duke of Albany's Palace.
- Scene III. The French camp near Dover.
- Scene IV. The French camp.
- Scene V. Gloucester's Castle.
- Scene VI. The country near Dover.
- Scene VII. A tent in the French camp.
- ACT V. Scene I. The British camp near Dover.
- Scene II. A field between the two camps.
- Scene III. The British camp, near Dover.
- THE END
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