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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我实在惶恐，严肃文学抱着学习语言的态度最好，深入思考会异常痛苦。最原始的幸福永远属于单纯的小2货，最残忍的真相宜了然于心，忌宣之于口。严肃文学作为作家对人性，社会深入思考的结晶和明知山有虎偏向虎山行的莽直产物，总归带有上访群众般即使胜利也人生残缺的不管不顾...
评分我实在惶恐，严肃文学抱着学习语言的态度最好，深入思考会异常痛苦。最原始的幸福永远属于单纯的小2货，最残忍的真相宜了然于心，忌宣之于口。严肃文学作为作家对人性，社会深入思考的结晶和明知山有虎偏向虎山行的莽直产物，总归带有上访群众般即使胜利也人生残缺的不管不顾...
评分我实在惶恐，严肃文学抱着学习语言的态度最好，深入思考会异常痛苦。最原始的幸福永远属于单纯的小2货，最残忍的真相宜了然于心，忌宣之于口。严肃文学作为作家对人性，社会深入思考的结晶和明知山有虎偏向虎山行的莽直产物，总归带有上访群众般即使胜利也人生残缺的不管不顾...
评分我实在惶恐，严肃文学抱着学习语言的态度最好，深入思考会异常痛苦。最原始的幸福永远属于单纯的小2货，最残忍的真相宜了然于心，忌宣之于口。严肃文学作为作家对人性，社会深入思考的结晶和明知山有虎偏向虎山行的莽直产物，总归带有上访群众般即使胜利也人生残缺的不管不顾...
评分我实在惶恐，严肃文学抱着学习语言的态度最好，深入思考会异常痛苦。最原始的幸福永远属于单纯的小2货，最残忍的真相宜了然于心，忌宣之于口。严肃文学作为作家对人性，社会深入思考的结晶和明知山有虎偏向虎山行的莽直产物，总归带有上访群众般即使胜利也人生残缺的不管不顾...
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李爾的性格悲劇，可憐之人必有可恨之處。"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods"
评分Nothing, subversive nature, illusion, madness. Death as resolution to nothing.
评分第二本英文阅读
评分the best of Shakespeare.
评分凭Lear那么养女儿，出现Cordelia绝对是小概率事件。Goneril和Regan那种缺乏安全感，一拿到权力马上排除异己的人更像是常年活在他淫威之下的人。莎士比亚的确是大神，他是怎么写出这么多性格鲜明的人物的。
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