King Lear
Siro: I am your servant, and servants ought never to ask their masters about anything, nor to look into any of their affairs, but when they are told about them by them themselves, they ought to serve them faithfully, so I have done and so I shall do.

Siro asserts in Mandragola that the main duty of a loyal servant- and indeed, of others who serve, such as vassal, spouse and child who owe loyalty to masters- is to obey. Some servants and others in Mandragola, Decameron, and King Lear, seem to agree. But some- such as, the Earl of Kent in King Lear-do not, expressing their loyalty instead of disobeying their masters (i.e. The King), and engaging in trickery.

Examine why the Earl of Kent reject's Siro's point-of-view and decides that the best way to remain loyal- loyal to King Lear, in the first case, to the Duke of Gloucester,…...

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REFERENCES

Boccaccio, G. (1920). Decameron. Cincinnati, OH

Shakespeare, W. (1998). King Lear. Signet Classics,

King Lear by hakespeare, like his other plays, is a truly timeless work. The tragedy with which the play ends, together with the growth and pain experienced by the characters throughout the play continues to evoke pity even today. This, according to Grothe, is not the case with Nahum Tate's work, which ends without any of the main characters dying. One of the reasons for this is the fact that Tate attempted to adapt hakespeare's work to a specific audience, whereas the original is truly timeless.
The beginning of both plays are fairly parallel, with Lear asking his daughters one by one how much they love him. While Goneril and Regan give their answers in poetic terms, Cordelia, the youngest worries about what she would say. When her turn comes, she hopes that the simplicity of her statement will convince her father of her love. This is true in both plays.…...

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Sources

Casey, Francis. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1986.

Grothe, Joel. "William Shakespeare's King Lear in the 1770's." 2004.  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/457GrotheJoel.htm 

Kermode, Frank (ed.). King Lear: A Casebook. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992.

Ryan, Michael. Literary theory: a practical introduction: readings of William Shakespeare, King Lear, Henry James, "The Aspern papers," Elizabeth Bishop, The complete poems 1927-1979, Toni Morrison, The bluest eye. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

For that reason, going mad is the perfect punishment. He led his mind into falsehoods through anger, and his mind essentially rebelled. In this light, it is somewhat ironic when Cordelia -- whose banishment was the source for Lear's madness, in this reading -- exclaims "he was met even now / As mad as the vexed sea" (IV, iv, 1-2). His madness brings her compassion, and ultimately his salvation.
Just so, Gloucester would not let himself see what his treatment of the bastard Edmond was doing to his son early in the play, and was easily fooled into seeing his noble son as a sort of traitor. These tricks of the eye made him blind, and he actually wishes he were mad: "Better I were distract. / So should my thoughts be severed from my griefs, / And woes by wrong imaginations lose / The knowledge of themselves." (IV, iv,…...

King Lear
The Shakespeare play King Lear has been adapted for modern audiences and staged at the University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. Lee Soroko was the director, and made the decision to apply a modern context to the Shakespeare play. The result was surprisingly seamless. Veteran stage actor Dennis Krausnick plays King Lear, who in this case appears more like a military general than one might imagine when reading the original Shakespeare text. One tends to encounter all Shakespeare texts by imagining all set in Elizabethan times, so it is refreshing to see the face of Lear literally transformed. Krausnick's mature performance is remarkable. His facial expressions are as stoic as Patrick Stewart's are, and his needs only to shift his visage now and again to convey the various thoughts and emotions that pass through the King's tragic mind. His three daughters are played by Rachel Derby (who plays…...

Gloucester disinherits his legitimate son and Lear disinherits the daughter who shows the truest feeling regarding her love for him, even though she will not use fancy words to pretend she loves him more than she really feels. This is not because Reagan and Goneril are so clever -- Cordelia's suitors see her worth, even though she is disinherited, as does Lear's fool. Vanity causes Lear to be blind to the truth, and Gloucester is literally blinded because of his folly in supporting Edmund.
Sometimes it is said that young people do not live up to their responsibilities. In Lear, it is the old who do not live up to their responsibilities -- Lear wants to behave like a foolish child, give up his right to rule, and simply enjoy himself at both daughter's expense. Gloucester, paranoid of being overthrown, turns against the son who loves him. In failing to…...

Because justice is not administered according to moral arguments -- Lear also argues that since laws are made by the same people, they cannot be moral ones -- it is reduced to who holds power at a given moment in time. imilarly, the death of Lear's daughter, Cordelia, at the end of the play suggests that not even the gods or the divine powers which rule the universe have a sense of justice. "What! art mad?" Lear retorts. "A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears." And then follows a terrific indictment of the rich and powerful "which is the justice, which is the thief?") that sums up under the same metaphor of blindness all hakespeare has had to says about Commodity-servers from King John on: "Plate sin with gold, / and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; / Arm it…...

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Sources

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Washington Square Press, 1993.

Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare's King Lear. Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

Brown, Dennis. "King Lear: The Lost Leader; Group Disintegration, Transformation and Suspended Reconsolidation." Critical Survey 13 (2001): 19-41.

Beauregard, David N. "Human Malevolence and Providence in King Lear." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 60 (2008): 371-396.

King Lear stands as an excellent example of one Shakespeare's tragedies, and in certain senses it is the most obviously "classical" in its sense of tragedy. The basic plot of the play involves Lear, who is the aging King, deciding to step down and divide his kingdom between his daughters, Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia according to their willingness to declare their love for him. While Regan and Goneril willingly flatter his pride given the prospect of worldly remuneration for their praise, Cordelia refrains resulting in her disinheritance. In this moment, we have the classical powerful figure, Lear, making a decision based on his vanity (classically defined as hubris) that will cause all of the rest of the horrible events in the play. Thus, we see that Lear fits the pattern of what is typically considered tragic, so how can there be room for comedy? Unfortunately for those who prefer…...

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Bibliography

Comedy in King Lear." Retrieved Thursday, September 11 at sonnets.com/kl.php.http://www.shakespeare-

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy of King Lear." Retrieved Thursday, September 11 at  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lear.html 

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Retrieved Thursday, September 11 at  http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_IIId.htm .

King Lears Downfall of Recognition
'I know what you are," says Cordelia to her sisters Goneril and Regan. Alas, her father does not perceive the brutality and mendacity in the hearts of his older children -- and Lear pays a heavy price for his failure to recognize their true characters. (I.i.270, p.1258) Because Lear also fails to see the goodness of his youngest daughter, or even to recognize the guise of his loyal Lord Kent when the man wears the clothes of an impoverished servant named Caius, King Lear must lose everything he owns, before he achieves any spiritual understanding.

King Lear begins the tragedy that bears his name the very pinnacle of his society, and ends the play as one of its lowest creatures, a demented, mad elderly man cradling the body of his dead daughter. He wishes to abdicate responsibility for rule to his daughters and their husbands, yet…...

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Works Cited

The Riverside Shakespeare. Second Edition. Princeton, NJ: Houghton Mifflin, Co.1974.

King Lear and Othello
illiam Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello are both tragic plays where many of the main and supporting characters die. Both characters are powerful men in charge of land and the citizens within that land but lose their power because of their own foolishness. Although Lear is a king at the start of the play and Othello is only a soldier, the two men both fulfill the role of the leader of their respective communities. This is not the only thing the two main characters have in common. In both stories, the main characters, Lear and Othello, make decisions which lead to the deaths of those they care about and a great deal of other violent consequences. Each character believes someone who lies to them, turns against an innocent person who did nothing wrong to them, experiences a period of madness, and ultimately makes choices which lead to…...

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Works Cited

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.: Halstead, 2002. Print.

Shakespeare, William. Othello. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP, 2002. Print.

Edward bond's lear vs. shakespeare's king lear
Political Potential

Influenced by etrolt recht

Plot: eginning of Transformation

Marxism in Lear

Governments into Power

Christike Political Figure

Governmental Autocratic Attitudes

Epic Theatre: Political Effect on Audience

Patriarchal Constraints

Cultural Power

Political Repercussions

edward bond's lear Vs. shakespeare's king lear

Lear was a play that was produced back in 1971 and it was not just any play. Lear had three-act and it was created by the ritish dramatist Edward ond. Many considered it to be an epic rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear which it was indeed. However, some may be unaware that the play was first produced in 1971 and it was done so at the Royal Court Theatre, featuring Harry Andrews who took on the title role. Later on, it was brought back to life ore revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company with ob Peck, sometime in 1982 and rejuvenated again at the Crucible Theatre, in 2005 at Sheffield, along with Ian MacDiarmid.

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Bibliography

Lear. Directed by Edward Bond. 1971.

Shakespeare, William. "King Lear." 1-256. Waxkeep Publishing, 1603.

Bond, E. (Director). (1971). Lear [Play]

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Edward ond's Lear vs. Shakespeare's King Lear
Adapting Lear for modern audiences:

Edward ond's Lear vs. Shakespeare's King Lear

Shakespeare's King Lear is considered one of the greatest tragedies of human literature, as it grapples with the question of the nature of humanity, human goodness, and the purpose of life. Lear is envisioned as an existentialist hero in some modern adaptations of the play, although for many years the mad king and his faithful fool and youngest daughter were sentimentalized in more conventional representations of the tragedy. For example, a 1681 production of the actor and author Nahum Tate "cuts out the Fool, gives the play a happy ending, and rewrites and replaces much of the original text.[footnoteRef:1]" ecause Lear was not a sufficiently optimistic play in which the good were rewarded and the wicked were punished, Tate wrote that Shakespeare's play seemed to him "a heap of jewels unstrung and unpolished, yet…...

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Bibliography

Hagopian, Kevin. "King Lear: Writer's Notes." New York State Writer's Institute.

 http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns98n11.html 

Smith, Leslie. "Edward Bond's Lear." Comparative Drama, 13.1 (Spring 1979): 65-85

Wood, James Robert. Review of Adapting King Lear for the Stage by Lynne Bradley.

O fool, I shall go mad!" (Lear II.iv, 283-286). Gloucester, speaking of the injustice in the world, after he has been betrayed and blinded by Regan and Goneril, remarks, "As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods, They kill us for their sport." (Lear, IV.i, 36-37). This remark makes the audience aware that the characters know that the events in the play seem both capricious and unjust. Finally, Lear addresses the injustice of the world and the specific injustice done to Gloucester, by asking, "What, art mad? / a man may see how this world goes with no eyes." (Lear, IV.vi, 150-151). Taken together, these three statements demonstrate that the play demonstrates tremendous loss, but also shows that man can triumph over that loss.
Hazlitt's "King Lear: An Analysis of the Play by William Shakespeare."

William Hazlitt believes that Lear is Shakespeare's best play, because it is the play…...

Animal Imagey in King Lea
One of the most appaent motifs in Shakespeae's King Lea is the use of animals. This pape attempts to undestand the choice of animal motifs and the ole it is intended to play in conveying the playwight's message.

The fist efeence to an animal in the play is ight at the beginning, when King Lea says: "Peace, Kent! Come not between the dagon and his wath" (1.1.125). Hee, King Lea is efeing to himself as the dagon, which myth paints as a fie beathing unfiendly animal. Thus, King Lea uses the metapho of a dagon to descibe his ange with his daughte Codelia and advises the Eal of Kent against defending the subject of his wath.

The dagon is used as a metapho again by Edmund, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Glouceste, albeit in a diffeent context and with a diffeent meaning when he says: "My…...

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references to animals in King Lear right throughout the play. On close analysis, it becomes very clear that Shakespeare has deliberately used animal imagery to highlight the less than civilized behaviour of his negative characters, implying that people are no better than animals when the darker side of human nature gets aroused.

Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" puts across an episode involving a king, his three daughters, and various important members of their kingdom as they come across events that put their humanity to test and that provide each of them with circumstances where they have to demonstrate their ability to distinguish between right and wrong. The play presents audiences with cruelty, suffering and the general feeling that divine powers are uninterested in the well-being of people. One of the principal elements in the play is related to morality and to whether it can be considered to exist in a world where evil and righteous people are provided with a similar treatment. The theme of justice dominates the play and influences audiences in acknowledging the fact that people are mainly responsible for making the world a reasonable place.
Most readers of "King Lear" are likely to agree that the play exaggerates the concepts of…...

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Works cited:

Shakespeare, William, "King Lear," 1723.

Fool in "King Lear" is one of the complex characters that is allowed, under a veil of foolishness, to say anything in front of the King, because he is considered to be partially irresponsible and, as such, cannot be punished for the things he says. The result is a confusing set of remarks, but many of these have underlying significance and effect on the play itself. The fact that he is able to speak his mind freely allows the author to sometimes put in his own remarks and observations as to the way the action of the play is constructed, without actually being one of the characters of the plays.
The Fool starts his speeches in Act I, Scene 4, where one can identify two types of speeches. In one type, he is making comments on the actions of the King, notably on the way he banished his daughter. However,…...

Literary Analysis

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