![]() For all his reservations Bradley conceded that it was the "fullest revelation of Shakespeare's power" - up there with Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Dante's Divine Comedy, Beethoven's symphonies and Michelangelo's statues. The story is told again and elaborated by sub-plots in Shakespeares King Lear. Yet, like subsequent critics, they could not deny the play's greatness. The tempest in which Lear finds himself is matched by the anger that. ![]() ![]() 78 Rowe’s reading ‘princes’ might be defended on the ground that the sentiment is general, and applicable to royal children of both sexes or that Sir Philip Sidney, in the first book of the. Bradley, the most influential of all commentators on Shakespeare. The form ‘princesses,’ the use of which in Shakespeare’s time was doubted by one of our correspondents, is found in the History of King Leir. What is King Lear about? What is it that breaks down in Lear? How important are the gods? How Christian is Lear? What do we make of Bedlam Tom's gibberish? Why is Edgar so important? To what extent is Nature being questioned? How does Shakespeare show us a world reduced to "nothing"? Does the play undermine language itself? How sympathetic is Shakespeare's treatment of women in Lear? Where does Lear leave us in the end? How does Lear look forward to Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd? The horrors of King Lear appalled Dr Johnson and exasperated A.C. ![]()
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