| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Annabelle (0)
01/09/2005 | I think that it is one of Shakespeare's greatest work. He showed falial ingratitude b/w Lear and 2 of his daughters(Goneril&Regan) and Gloucester and his illegimate son Edgar , so well and believable for that time. And the respect that Cordelia and Kent have for Lear is really well shown by the way Kent disguised himself to help Lear even after he banished him. And for Cordelia, she had the French army to go and rescue her father even after he disowned her. Lear was a tragic hero b/c he brought his downfall on himself by dividing his kingdom in 2. And as for Edmund, Cornwall, Albany, Regan and Goneril, they all deserve what they got b/c of the way they went about.
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 | kierchehof (0)
09/02/2004 | I hated it. One of the worst Tragedies by Bill. The only reason why it goes two is because it was written by Shakespeare.
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 | nickkicksass (0)
04/29/2004 | Great book by Shakespeare! Not my favourite, but nonetheless still an amazing work of art! The themes, the characters, everything! Edmund- great villain! Edgar-one of my favourites! Very genuine! Gloucester- I cried when you had your eyes put out. I loved you man! I actually cried a lot in this book, also when Lear died, and when Lear carried Cordelia's dead body! Very emotional play filled with tragedy, but Shakespeare's best plays are the tragedies!
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 | irishgit (150)
12/12/2003 | I believe this is Shakespeare's masterwork. The language, theme and narrative is unsurpassed. Edmund is the classic clever villain counterpoint. Now, Gods, stand up for bastards.
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 | Enkidu (38)
12/09/2003 | Possibly the biggest play ever written, with the most universal theme of all. Lear is heroic because he refuses to accept the fact of evil, and batters himself to pieces against it, rather like Ahab. He even has a kinship to Milton's Satan... look for it if you dare. Edmund is one of the supremely evil characters in Shakespeare, and is in every way Lear's opposite. The two characters never speak to each other in the play--what would they have to say? This incredible, passionate tragedy about the end of the world has only gotten bigger with the centuries; few people take the time and trouble to attempt to come to grips with it; it is almost impossible to stage, with its vast scale and emotional demands; and if it doesn't wring tears from you when Lear is alone in the storm, you have a heart of cold stone. I try to read this again every couple of years, and I always find something new.
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 | Moosekarloff (19)
04/30/2003 | One of the top three or four plays the Bard wrote. Familial loyalty put to the test and found lacking, with disasterous results. I don't know if KikiD is kidding or not, but I certainly hope he/she/it is. Maybe William Shakepeare didn't actually write his plays, maybe he was a frontman, a beard, a plant, but whoever wrote the plays that bear Shakespeare's name was hardly a fraud. Whovever wrote these plays was by far the greatest dramatist of all time, and one of the greatest poets who ever picked up a pen. Maybe these plays were written by committee, but even if they were, they're still magnificent, and not at all deserving of a one-star rating by some idiot who probably whacks off to Adam Sandler films.
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