A Great Tragedy: The good misunderstood and the evil accepted Shakespeare's King Lear and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a detailed description of the consequences of one mans decisions that ends in a tragedy. ... It is not till the end of the plays that the honest people are recognized. ... In the opening of Shakespeare's King Lear the first error in judgement is introduced in scene 1.1 lines 95-98, where Cordelia confesses her love for her father. ... It is not until the end of the plays that Lear and Faustus is enlightened. ... Overall these plays were full of evil...

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