from karl.steel

Teaching it for the second time. The Folger edition is okay, but it badly needs to be updated; and the illustrations in the facing page are, to my mind, badly chosen, unless they're meant only to promote the grandeur of the Folger library. I think they would have done much better to provide photo...

from dirkjohnson

I'm somewhat biased: Lear is my favorite play written since the time of Euripides (who wrote later than my absolute favorites Aeschylus and Sophocles). The cast and execution of the Naxos audiobook are also excellent. I would list the cast, but the combination of blurred lines between book and pe...

from AlanWPowers

Maybe the fifteenth time I've read Lear (this time in the tiny red-leather RSC edition). Always impressed, especially with the curses and curse-like screeds. I can't stand Lear onstage, particularly the blinding of Gloster (so spelled in this edition). How sharper than a serpants teeth it is / to...

from Juva

An aging king decides to retire and distribute his wealth among his children. Turning to his daughter's he asks each of them to describe how they love him. The first two flatter him shamelessly and are richly rewarded. The final daughter, Cordelia, refuses to be false only owning the love a fathe...

from mstrust

Vain and silly King Lear demands that each of his three daughters describe their love for him. When the youngest and favored Cordelia gives a reply that is less gushing, but more reasonable, than her sisters, the King banishes her. This sets up a chain of miserable events in which the sisters and...