William Shakespeare's King Lear

William Shakespeare’s King Lear
Begin: 1/14/08
End: 1/19/08
Quality: Nine out of Ten.
Reason: Reading Plan.
Genre: Drama. Classics.
Original Language: English.
Date of Publication: 1608.
Fog Index: 6.8/88% are harder.
Flesch Index: 75.0/90% are harder.
Flesch-Kincaid Index: 4.8/90% are harder.
Complex Words: 9%/75% have more.
Number: Fourth?
Synopsis: King Lear decides to retire and split his kingdom in three among his daughters. He furthermore decides that they should tell me before the full court how much they love him. Goneril and Regan flatter him quite a bit but Cordelia, his favorite, refuses to do this and is banished without any land. Once he leaves the throne, his daughters refuse to let him live in style. Eventually, Cordelia, who has married the King of France, invade to put Lear back on the throne. Tragedy ensues all over.
Thoughts: This is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. It is really quite good. I mean it’s horribly tragic and sad. It is probably one of Shakespeare’s most brutal plays. I can understand why it is so popular today with it’s rather nihilistic themes. And you also have some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters. Edmund and Kent and Cordelia and Lear. It all fits together rather impressively.
Not really sure what else to say about a play that has been worked over by some of the greatest scholars so I will leave it at this.