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Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and absolute length of the pain that it represents. The characters harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks.
The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to huge proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom —one reason this is the most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play.9789874896421Shakespeare, WilliamDramaturgy; Theater