num_pages: 220
description: Publisher's series: The Signet Classic Shakespeare"King Lear" dramatizes the troubled succession of an aging British monarch. Featuring cogent disquisitions on ambition, vanity, and loyalty, this is, one of the most analyzed and influential of Shakespeare's tragedies.
language: English
title: King Lear
titlecomplete: King Lear
characters: Edmund, Goneril, Edgar, Leir of Britain, Duke of Albany, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Cordelia, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Kent, Regan
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Tragedy, Poetry, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics
ratings_count: 212578
publisher: The New American Library