Enjoying King Lear , by William Shakespeare by Ed Friedlander M.D. erf@uhs.edu Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. -- Edgar If you are a student assigned to read or see King Lear , or an adult approaching it for the first time, your experience will be special. These notes will help you get started. Translate this page automatically If there was ever a historical King Lear, his memory ...

Welcome to my study site on Shakespeare's King Lear (139K) Shakespeare took a story which had a happy ending, and gave it a sad ending. He transformed a fairy-tale about virtuous and wicked people into something morally ambiguous. He took a story of wrongs being righted, and turned it into the story of painful discovery. He included passages which deal with ideas instead of advancing the plot.