Play · c. 1606
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Play · c. 1606 · English · Renaissance
King Lear
A king divides his kingdom by asking his daughters to price their love.
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The bleakest of the tragedies: authority stripped to a shivering body on a heath, and language stripped to 'never, never, never, never, never'.
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