Tragedy of King Lear

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…to grasp peculiar effects that Shakespeare includes in the play. Some feel that Shakespeare was a genius that had alternate meanings for many of his plot lines, including and especially King Lear. Lear's insanity weakens his coherence and poetic imagination but it stimulates his time of reflection and moral perception. It is wonderful things like this that do make works such as King Lear one of the best works that William Shakespeare had ever produced.