King Lear
Ranked #4 in Drama, Ranked #5 in Theater — see more rankings.
In King Lear, one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. In this play, we see ourselves and our small vices magnified to gigantic proportions; also, through the character of Lear, we see the end of our lives, with old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, helplessness,... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Steve Jobs Founder/AppleJobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of his biography, that he “loved King Lear”, which isn’t surprising. (Source)
Kathleen Taylor Lear is about all sorts of things but one of the things it’s about is people getting old and not ceding what their kids think they should to them and the kids trying to bully them. (Source)
Rankings by Category
King Lear is ranked in the following categories:
- #68 in 12th Grade
- #68 in 17-Year-Old
- #68 in 18-Year-Old
- #95 in Academia
- #57 in Acting
- #20 in Betrayal
- #6 in Blindness
- #40 in Class
- #97 in Classical
- #12 in Dublin
- #40 in Graduate School
- #56 in High School Reading
- #59 in Legend
- #6 in Renaissance
- #17 in Screenplay
- #6 in Shakespeare
- #37 in Sister
- #92 in UK
- #16 in University
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