num_pages: 176
description: A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings--as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.
language: English
title: King Lear
titlecomplete: King Lear (Shakespeare, Pelican)
characters: Edgar, Cordelia, Duke of Albany, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Kent, Regan, Duke of Cornwall, Leir of Britain, Goneril, Fool, Edmund
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Read For School, Tragedy, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 212589
publisher: Penguin Classics