King Lear, a summary of the play Audiobook (Free)

Ruler Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, depicting the progressive descent into madness of the title personality, after he gets rid of his kingdom offering bequests to two of his 3 daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic effects for everyone. The play is derived from the story of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king; after the British Restoration, it was often revised having a happy ending for viewers who disliked its dark and depressing shade, but since the 19th hundred years Shakespeare’s original edition has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements. The tragedy is specially noted for its probing observations on the type of human struggling and kinship. George Bernard Shaw published, “No guy will ever write a better tragedy than Lear.” That is a detailed overview of the enjoy, re-told in todays vocabulary.