King Lear is a text that has been continually recontexualised but its universal nature is reflected through its reception in a range of contexts. ... King Lear explores how responsibility and order are one and the same with power and authority. ... Following both the major plot of King Lear's family, and the parallel plot of Gloucester's family, the parental flaws of the patriarch's King Lear and Gloucester become evident, becoming the catalysts to the domestic anarchy to follow. ... King Lear explores the concept of eluding responsibility by placing complete confidence in fate,...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King Lear, like all texts, has been interpreted in a number of ways. ... In a contemporary society however, King Lear has been received very differently. ... As a result, Eyre's reading presents King Lear as a domestic rather than a social tragedy. ... While the Elizabethans, as a result of their political and cultural values view the play as a domestic tragedy, and believe the downfall of the Kingdom to be due to Lear's failure as a King. ... King Lear has been and will always be read in a variety of ways. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare's King Lear: Film production by Richard Eyre or Michael Elliott? King Lear today rivals Hamlet as the most frequently performed William Shakespeare play. King Lear is a timeless tale of human greed, lust for power and lost loyalties. Directors" Richard Eyre and Michael Elliott have produced two distinctively different film adaptations of Shakespeare's play King Lear. ... Elliott, though, has created a production that is more successful in drawing contextual meaning from Shakespeare's King Lear while staying true to the original play. ...

• Word Count: 1073
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate