King Lear by William Shakespeare

144 pages first pub 1606 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging dark sad medium-paced
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First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, inj...

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