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King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton
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来源：《北大法律评论》2013年第十四卷第二辑 【摘要】我们通常以为，《李尔王》开篇，李尔王设置的“爱的审判”场景显示出他的年老昏聩，但我们通过文本的细致阅读会发现，他其实具有非常明确的政治意图——虽然考狄利娅令这个意图落空。这个悲剧清晰地呈现了继承人教育这个与...
评分 评分##Nothing, subversive nature, illusion, madness. Death as resolution to nothing.
评分##加孙大雨译本。"Ripeness is all."
评分##如果当成讽齐王纳谏来读，就太没趣了。苍老加刑于李尔王，他用暴怒对答。“老”不只是白头，还有失去万千，虚名假意，无非衣装，脱下来吧！残忍的并非双女，是人性之必然，生命至终不过是孤独，风雪夜行人，赤身answer the extremity of skies. 全书是如此晦暗，几乎熬不到结尾那段软语：让我们抽身离这个荒谬无解的世界远远的吧，在误解、死亡和权谋的夹缝里，我们的对视中微弱颤动着爱之弧光。他为永爱咆哮未果，屈身请求一个卑微瞬间，终于获准了。不只死，通向死的路也是苦的，所以降生时提前啼哭起来。无限悲凄收编入最后一句：不要活得那样长了。迪兰托马斯那首诗是为李尔作的吧：Rage rage against the dying of the light.
评分##the best of Shakespeare.
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