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A review by pansy_ass
King Lear by William Shakespeare
4.0
Surprise, surprise! I actually liked this play! I'd written the 'greatest' playwright of all time off as a concoction of group-mentality hobnob and over-glorified celebration built upon years and years of social reinforcement, but I have to say that King Lear has redeemed him substantially.
I quite enjoyed the juxtaposition of the act of physically seeing something and the ability to mentally perceive something. The last several pages, packed to the brim with exposed tawdry affairs and vicious conspiring, lethal heartbreak or just plain ol' stab wounds, I was gripped.
Matched, in my opinion, only by Will's epic tale of Macbeth, King Lear deserves applause from even my skeptic hands. Touché, William. Touché.
I quite enjoyed the juxtaposition of the act of physically seeing something and the ability to mentally perceive something. The last several pages, packed to the brim with exposed tawdry affairs and vicious conspiring, lethal heartbreak or just plain ol' stab wounds, I was gripped.
Matched, in my opinion, only by Will's epic tale of Macbeth, King Lear deserves applause from even my skeptic hands. Touché, William. Touché.