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King Lear is everyone's favorite Shakespearean tragedy about an aging king who decides to become a nudist.Er—hold up. King Lear is Shakespeare's most gruesome tragedy about a nobleman getting his eyes gouged out, style.Hmm. Still not getting all of the pertinent points in. Okay: King Lear is a super-tragic play by some guy named Bill about how, 50-66.6% of the time, your offspring will try to kill you.It's no good. There's simply no way to be pithy about King Lear. There's a -level world of hurt happening in this tragedy.

There's also an Encyclopedia Brittanica-level amount of British history. And enough family dysfunction to make spit out his cigar in fright. Oh, and about a zillion eloquent quotable quotes—this is Shakespeare we're dealing with, after all.So here are the facts, folks. King Lear is a tragedy by the big Billy himself, William Shakespeare. The play's action centers on an aging king who decides to divvy up his kingdom between his three daughters (Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia) in order to avoid any conflict after his death.

Com0com 64 bit download signed. Early retirement and the division of the kingdom turn out to be a big no-no. Lear's actions end up destroying his family, tearing apart the kingdom, and causing a big old war, leaving just about everyone dead by the play's end.King Lear was written between 1604 and 1606, after King James I of England (also known as King James VI of Scotland) ascended the English throne (1603). ( FYI—King James just so happened to attend a performance of the play at Whitehall on December 26, 1606.)For the past several decades, the crazily brilliant King Lear has been regarded as one of Shakespeare's greatest works, perhaps even better than. Weirdly, this wasn't always the case.

After the English Civil War (1642-1651), the play came to be regarded as a theatrical flop. The excessive portrayal of cruelty and suffering in Shakespeare's play (especially the violent blinding of Gloucester, Lear's descent into madness, and the tragic death of Cordelia) was deemed to be just t oo much.It seems that after a long and grueling English Civil War, audiences were looking for something a little more upbeat and less cynical. Enter playwright Nahum Tate, who rewrote Shakespeare's play in 1681 so it would have a happy ending. (We're not kidding—he made some big changes.) In Tate's version, Lear and Cordelia live and Cordelia falls in love with and marries Edgar.

(Tate was a wimp.)We don't want to spoil the ending for you but, that's not what happens in Shakespeare's original.But by the 1960s people were ready for a raw, real-deal Lear. After the Holocaust and two World Wars, the vision of human life presented in King Lear didn't seem overly cynical—it seemed pretty realistic. The play's graphic violence suddenly seemed appropriate. So did Lear's suggestion that gods either don't exist or, if they do, they like to torture humans. Productions of Lear (notably, Peter Brook's 1962 stage production) multiplied, and it's been riding a high tide of popularity ever since.And, while you might not be able to Netflix a star-studded version of King Lear (why not, Hollywood? Why not?!), adaptations of Lear are everywhere you turn. Elements of this play have been used in about a zillion other texts, from hugely important classics of Japanese film like Akira Kurosawa's, to 20th Century American literary classics like Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, to The Beatle's song 'I Am The Walrus.'

It may have had a rocky past (hey, so did ) but, given the breadth of its influence—not to mention its brilliance— King Lear is here to stay. What is King Lear About and Why Should I Care?Yo, how about this one: it's by Shakespeare.And if that doesn't impress you, try this one on for size: it's a tragedy by Shakespeare. It's not one of his fusty histories or cheesy comedies (not that those are anything to sneeze at, but the tragedies are in a class of their own).And if that doesn’t impress you (tough crowd): it's considered by many to be Shakespeare's best tragedy, outranking ever Hamlet. That basically makes it—according to some very brainy lit critics—the by the most important playwright that ever wrote in English.Yup. If that isn't doesn't activate the 'must read now!' Part of your cerebral cortex (hey, we're lit nerds, not neurosurgeons) we don't know what will. We have no idea.So why is this such a brain-shatteringly important read?

Isn't King Lear just a play about a senile old man who makes a series of bad political decisions until just about everyone winds up dead? Nope: King Lear is about a whole lot more than Lear's political crisis. When it comes down to it, family relationships—not just politics—are at the heart of the play.Famous literary critic Stephen Greenblatt writes that 'the focus of Shakespeare's tragedy' is 'Lear's folly,' which amounts to his decision to 'rashly disinherit the only child who truly loves him' (Introduction to King Lear, Norton Edition). In other words, when Big Papa Lear disowns his loving daughter, Cordelia, he pretty much sets in motion the tragic events that follow—Goneril and Regan betray their father (they throw him out into the cold before proceeding to fight one another over a guy), Lear becomes homeless and wanders around the kingdom, war erupts, Goneril poisons her sister, Regan, and then kills herself, Cordelia is unjustly put to death by order of her sister's lover, Lear dies of a broken heart, and so on.In other words, Lear's whole family ends up dead.So, is Shakespeare telling us to be nice to our families? He's also telling us that family drama is universal and timeless. So, after you read Lear, you'll definitely want to give your annoying little sister a hug instead of trying to steal her evil boyfriend—you'll also want to rethink your plan to poison your sibling and throw your aging father out onto the streets after he gives you your own kingdom. Or, you know, put on a happy face at the next (predictably insane) family Thanksgiving.

King Lear Resources Movie or TV ProductionsJean-Luc Godard directed this strange Sci-Fi re-imagining of 'Don Learo' and his daughter, Cordelia (played by Molly Ringwald).King Lear, directed by Peter Brook, stars Paul Scofield as King Lear. This bleak, existentialist interpretation is one of the most influential modern productions of the play.A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley's novel based on King Lear, won the Pulitzer Prize and was later made into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange. The story is set in rural Iowa and tells the story of a farmer who tries to divide his land among his three daughters.Ran, Kurosawa's epic Japanese film, mixes King Lear with stories of the samurai. The film won a 1985 Academy Award and was nominated for four more.The Dresser, Ronald Harwood's play, also made into a film, follows the struggles of an aging British actor who is playing the title role in a production of King Lear.In The King of Texas, Patrick Stewart plays the Lear figure in this TV adaptation of the play set in, you guessed it, Texas. VideosA clip of Ian McKellen as King Lear. He moans a lot.The actors playing Edmund, Edgar and Gloucester answer questions about their characters.Ian McKellen (a.k.a.

Gandalf) portrays King Lear in this televised version of the play, directed by Trevor Nunn. AudioGot 45 minutes?

Listen to the BBC's 'In Our Time' podcast on the topic of King Lear. Host Melvyn Bragg talks about the play with famous Shakespeare scholars Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey, and Katherine Duncan Jones.To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Premiere of King Lear, NPR invited the Reduced Shakespeare Company to perform King Lear in 34 seconds. Listen to the podcast here.This NPR All Things Considered episode from 2007 discusses Ian McKellen's stage performance.Author Christopher Moore discusses his re-telling of King Lear on NPR's Talk of the Nation. ImagesKing Lear from past Royal Shakespeare Company performances.This website presents famous paintings of the play's scenes and characters.Check out this pen and ink water color by poet (and artist!) William Blake, compliments of the Tate Museum.In this selection of great art that was inspired by King Lear, the pieces have been gathered from a diverse range of artists, styles, and time periods, and have been arranged in a way that helps to summarize (chronologically) the play. ArticlesThis article chronicles doctors' attempts to figure out what mental illness Lear might have had.The New York Times bashes Kevin Kline's 2007 theater production of King Lear.Variety magazine reviews Ian McKellen's 2007 production of King Lear. OtherThe Royal Shakespeare Company prepared a guide to King Lear.

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