MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION
OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Faculty of Foreign Philology of the Urgench State University
Course work
on english and American literature
William Shakespeare “King Lear”
Supervisor:
M. Eshmurotova Student: Ibraximov Murodbek.
e-mail:leninza-masharipova@mail.ru II year student – group 2012
Department of English Language
and Literature
Urganch
2022
Contents
BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
YOUR THOUGHTS
USED LITERATURE
APPENDIX
ENTRY 1. BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Full name
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William Shakespeare
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Pen name
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Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon
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Born
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April 26, 1564
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Died
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April 23, 1616
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Nationality
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English
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Education
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The King’s New School
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Occupation
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Playwright, poet, actor
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Genre(s)
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Histories, tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies
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Notable work(s)
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“A midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Hamlet”, “Antony and Cleopatra”, “Macbeth”, “King Lear”, “Otello”, “Hamlet”
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Award(s), Prize(s)
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Quotation(s)
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
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Uzbek (and Russian) contemporaries
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So’fi Olloyor, Boborahim Mashrab,Vassian (Petrikiew)
Dmitriy Gerasimov
Ivan Grozniy
Karpow
Maksim Greck
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Family of the author
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Marriage
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Anne Hathaway, 1582
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Children
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Susanna and twins: Judith and Hamnet
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ENTRY 2. CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
YEARS
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DESCRIPTION
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1564
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William Shakespeare born in Stradford-upon-Avon
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1582
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Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
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1583
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Shakespeare’s first child, Susanna, is born
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1585
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Shakespeare’s twins, Judith and Hamnet, are born
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1592
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Shakespeare is first alluded to as a playwright, in Greene’s Groates-worth of Wit
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1593
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Shakespeare’s first printed poem, Venus and Adonis, appears
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1594
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Sakespeare’s first printed play, Titus Andronicus, appears
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1596
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Shakespeare’s father, John Shakespeare, is granted a coat of arms; Shakespear’s son, Hamnet, dies
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1597
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Shakespeare purchases New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon
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1598
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Shakespeare is first mentioned as a sonneteer and author of 12 plays in Palladis Tamia
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1599
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Shakespeare’s father is granted a confirmation of arms
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1600
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Extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poetry appear in Bel-vedere, the first printed literary commonplace book to include plays
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1601
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Shakespeare’s father, John Shakespeare, dies
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1603
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Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, becomes the King’s Men at the accession of James I; Hmalet appears in print
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1607
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Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna marries John Hall
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1608
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Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Shakespeare, dies; his granddaughter Elizabeth is born
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1609
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Shakespeare’s Spnnets appears in print
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1616
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Shakespeare writes his will; his daughter Judith marries Thomas Quiney; Shakespeare dies
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1623
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The First Folio is published; Shakespeare’s widow Anne dies
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ENTRY 3. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
Years
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Full title of the work
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Type of work
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1590-1592
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Henry VI. Part 1,Part2, Part3
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History
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1592-1593
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Richart III
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History
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1592-1593
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The Comedy of Errors
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Comedy
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1593-1594
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Titus Adronicus
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Tragedy
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1594-1595
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Love’s labour’s Lost
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Comedy
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1594-1595
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Romeo and Juliet
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Tragedy
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1595-1596
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Richart II
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History
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1596-1597
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King John
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History
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1596-1597
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The Merchant of Venice
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Comedy
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1597-1599
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Henry IV. Part1.Part2. Part3
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History
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1599-1600
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Twelfhe Night
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Comedy
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1600-1601
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Hamlet
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Tragedy
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1601-1602
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All’s Well Wives of Windsor
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Comedy
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1604-1605
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Measure for Measure
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Comedy
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1604-1605
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Othello
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Tragedy
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1605-1606
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King-Lear
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Tragedy
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1605-1606
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Macbeth
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Tragedy
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16061607
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Tragedy
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1607-1608
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Timon of Athens
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Tragedy
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1608-1609
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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History
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1609-1610
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Cymbeline
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Comedy
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1610-1611
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The Winter’s Tale
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Tragedy
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1611-1612
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The Tempest
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Drama
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1612-1613
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Henry VIII
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History
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11612-1613
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Tragicomedy
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1590-1592
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Henry VI. Part 1,Part2, Part3
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History
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1592-1593
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Richart III
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History
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1592-1593
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The Comedy of Errors
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Comedy
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1594-1595
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Love’s labour’s Lost
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Comedy
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1594-1595
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Romeo and Juliet
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Tragedy
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1595-1596
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Richart II
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History
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1596-1597
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King John
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History
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ENTRY 4. KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
Full title
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King Lear
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Author
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William Shakespeare
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Type of work
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Play
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Genre
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Tragedy
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Language
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English
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Time & place
Written
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1905-1906, in London
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Date of first publication
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1608
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Narrator
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William Shakespeare
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Setting (time)
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winter
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Setting (place)
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Ancient Britaim
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Themes, motifs
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Justice, Authority versus Chaos, Reconciliation, Nihilism, Self-knowledge, Madness, Betrayal
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Translation into Uzbek
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Qirol Lir
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Translation into Russian
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Король Лир
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ENTRY 5. Your Thoughts
Answer the following questions
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What did you learn from the book?
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Right from the beginning, we see the value of sincerity and telling the truth, which Lear’s youngest daughter Cordelia does when invited to declare how much she loves her father. we can learn from “King Lear” are those of self-knowledge, compassion, and empathy for the less fortunate which the King, throneless, homeless and abandoned by everyone apart from his faithful (if wittily critical) Fool, Edgar disguised as Poor Tom.
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Why did the author choose such setting?
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King Lear is set in ancient Britain, several centuries before the arrival of Christianity. In Shakespeare’s day, historians believed pre-Christian Britain had been a single united kingdom that was later divided into Britain and Scotland. When Shakespeare wrote the play, King James I ruled both England and Scotland and wanted to reunite his two kingdoms. James’s plan was vigorously opposed by both the English and the Scots. When King Lear was performed at James’s court, the King would have been pleased to see that Lear’s decision to separate the kingdom of Britain ends in disaster, implicitly suggesting the two kingdoms belong together. Even though Shakespeare’s play supports the King’s cause, the play doesn’t explicitly address the topic of reunifying contemporary Britain directly. Playwrights could be imprisoned for writing anything too political. By setting his story in the distant past, Shakespeare freed himself to tackle this important topic.
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Why did the author finish the work in the way he did it?
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King Lear ends with a battle for the British throne. Edmund wins the battle for the throne, but is then killed by his brother Edgar. As Edmund dies, he admits that he has sent orders for Lear and Cordelia to be executed. The orders are reversed, but too late; Cordelia has already been killed. Upon discovering that his beloved daughter has died, Lear dies of grief. Generations of readers have found the ending of King Lear unbearably sad. For more than a century it was considered too tragic to perform. In 1681, Nahum Tate wrote an adaptation of King Lear in which Cordelia lives, and until 1838 this optimistic version of the play was more popular than Shakespeare’s. In fact, Shakespeare’s ending was hardly performed during that period. The ending of King Lear is especially hard to bear because the characters suffer in ways that seem meaningless.
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4
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What questions would you ask the author if you had such chance?
Why does Lear banish Cordelia? Why does Edmund hate his family? Who is “Poor Tom”? Who rules Britain at the end of the play?
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5
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Would you recommend reading this book? Why or why not?
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I highly recommend reading this book. Because the play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.
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USED LITERATURE
Ackroyd, Peter (2006). Shakespeare: The Biography. London: Vintage.
Adams, Joseph Quincy (1923). A Life of William Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Baldwin, T.W. (1944). William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greek. Vol. 1. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press.
Barroll, Leeds (1991). Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Bate, Jonathan (2008). The Soul of the Age. London: Penguin.
William Shakespeare, King Lear (1996)
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