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  Capital in the great shakespearian dramatic era, probably it's the greatest one with Macbeth too. King Lear is all a big metaphor about the hierarchies' twisting and human crisis. In this drama sub plot is the real transfiguration of the main one, there's a complex philosphical inquiry behind all fi ... (continue)

  Capital in the great shakespearian dramatic era, probably it's the greatest one with Macbeth too. King Lear is all a big metaphor about the hierarchies' twisting and human crisis. In this drama sub plot is the real transfiguration of the main one, there's a complex philosphical inquiry behind all figures and it makes reading absorbing.

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  warm gun said on Nov 4, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  King Lear

  The twisted double-plot shows how brilliant the playwright is. After reading it, the teacher showed us another Beijing Opera's interpretation of this play. However, it cut the subplot and mainly focus on King Lear and his daughters. Edmund thus became an evil for no reason and Cordelia a pure innoce ... (continue)

  The twisted double-plot shows how brilliant the playwright is. After reading it, the teacher showed us another Beijing Opera's interpretation of this play. However, it cut the subplot and mainly focus on King Lear and his daughters. Edmund thus became an evil for no reason and Cordelia a pure innocent figure in this play. It then lost the most brilliant essence of Shakespeare's great play.

  In King Lear, everyone is imperfect and has deep fear to admit it. That is how tragedy began and that is what's going on in everyday life. I do not believe in Murphy's rule and I know it is sometimes certainly unbearable to farce the truth, somehow we shall do the right things and accept our fate.
  Let's face it, be silent and speechless like Edgar.

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  Yi said on Mar 13, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Rating is for the edition, rather than the play itself. This is my favourite of the various different Shakespeare editions I've ever picked up. It's got a great deal of extra information for the reader, including several summaries (scene by scene, act by act, and an overview of the play).

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  Hold Your Spin said on Dec 12, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Unbound 240 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0764517244
• ISBN-13: 9780764517242
• Publisher: Hungry Minds
• Pub date: Apr 01, 2002
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Softcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 和書, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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