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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 other. Emotions are extreme, mag
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Release date: 1 January 2004
ISBN-10 : 074348276X | ISBN-13: 9780743482769
Release date: 1 January 2004
ISBN-10 : 074348276X | ISBN-13: 9780743482769
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