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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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##第一次讀隻能算囫圇吞棗吧。待我再認真讀一遍後再寫書評。
評分我在高中的時候第一次看莎士比亞的四大悲劇，當時隻是把《李爾王》看作是一個昏庸君王誤信小人言最後導緻悲劇的故事。這學期第一次看的時候是速讀，似乎看到瞭其中的蛛絲馬跡，再第二次看的時候思路逐漸變得清晰，本篇讀書筆記根據《李爾王》文本，對細節進行分析，提齣五個有...
評分##"A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue/ That I am glad I have not, though not to have it/ Hath lost me in your liking."
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##"A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue/ That I am glad I have not, though not to have it/ Hath lost me in your liking."
評分##元素真是太豐富瞭 怎一個慘字瞭得 當我們生下地來的時候，我們因為來到瞭這個全是些傻瓜的廣大的舞颱之上，所以禁不住放聲大哭。 —莎士比亞：《李爾王》 Lear是人世間感情最豐富洶湧，最渴求愛的那一個。他嚮女兒要求嘴唇吐齣的愛，考狄莉亞卻不能給予，“隻是...
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