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The father of Literature, William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was outstandingly talented and admired throughout the world. Shakespeare’s lifetime’s achievements are numerous as he worked as a poet, dramatist, and as an actor. He has been respected and honoured as National poet and Bard of Avon. He created many skilful works and King Lear is one of them. Around 154 sonnets and 38 plays have been composed by him and furthermore two narrative poems which are very long. The tragic play

The ability of an author to capture the interest of the audience has and will always be an important factor in the art of storytelling and even the expression of research or related material. When an author is able to seize the attention of any partaking of their work, curiosity will develop which will lead to the wonder of what the conclusion my bring about. Not only is it important to snatch the audience’s attention in the beginning, it is necessary to hold it prisoner throughout the tale. Authors

Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello: William Shakespeare’s most well-known plays are also his most recognizably Christian; set in predominantly Christian Europe, these plays are often peppered with biblical allegories and allusions, making myriad references to angels, demons, God, and everything else in-between. King Lear, set in pagan, pre-Christian England, does at first appear to deviate from the rest of its pack – until one notices that its characters are found addressing, or referring to, their gods as

William Shakespeare’s great tragedy King Lear is widely considered his greatest work. King Lear would have caused some anxiety for its Christian audience through its contradiction of Christian values, nihilism, the uselessness of language and the unresponsiveness of the gods. In this text the frequent contradictions of Christian values would have made Shakespeare’s audience anxious. One example of this is in the first scene of the play when Lear declares “Nothing will come of nothing.” This line

William Shakespeare's Relevance Today For as long as formal education has existed in Britain it has been a largely standard assumption that teaching the works of William Shakespeare is relevant and necessary. Perhaps the relevance of his writing is taken for granted, perhaps it is necessary to re-examine the role of Shakespeare for the modern audience. There are indeed many people who question the relevance of this 440 year old playwright to a 21st century audience

Despite its first performance being in 1608 where women were not allowed to take part in theatre, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is arguably dominated by the female characters. The story focuses on a king who is driven into madness and decides to handover his power to his two eldest daughters, Regan and Goneril. These two daughters are exceptionally important to the development of the play since it can be argued that they are the ones commanding a fair share of the events that take place. This can

Certainly, King Lear is one of William Shakespeare’s most tragic plays in which the complexity of the plot can be very intriguing. One major aspect of this play is about identity and how these identities can determine your path in life. Identity can either do people good or have a negative impact on someone’s life. There are two types of identity that this play focuses on: identity lost and identity abandoned. In the case of this play, King Lear and Edgar are two of the major characters that play

Originally written at the start of the 17th century, William Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, has become one of his most famed works. The tragedy was first adapted for the screen in 1909 as a black and white, silent film. Almost a century later in 2008, King Lear was once more brought to life through director Trevor Nunn’s film adaptation of the same name. Staring Ian McKellen as King Lear, the film adaptation is based on the 2007 production of the play by the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company. King

The Shakespearean tragedy, King Lear, is a significant play that explores the concept of blindness whilst communicating the importance of the theme for the characters King Lear and Earl of Gloucester. Blindness is in literary terms is defined as the inability of the eye to see, however in Shakespeare’s play blindness is perceived to be a mental flaw that people possess and is the catalyst for false decisions that eventually place the two characters into emotions of despair and regret. In the play

Fatima Mossolem In Samuel Johnson’s essay Preface to Shakespeare he asserts that Shakespeare’s writing is a “mirror of manners and of life,” which in laymans terms means that Shakespeare writes the truth about life, even when it is seen as unpleasant. This proves to be true even today, over a hundred years since King Lear was written. One of the meanings of the work as a whole in King Lear is that loyalty doesn 't always have to be born of blood. We see this mostly with Kent, Lear’s faithful servant