Familial Themes with Shakespeare's King Lear

Some of Shakespeare’s most well known works are his tragedies. One of the reasons they are still read worldwide is Shakespeare’s study of character and the relationships, which these characters are involved with. In order to get the full tragedy; the characters must represent basic morals or ideas. A common theme among a lot of Shakespeare works is the idea of family and what it means to be within and part of a …

…by breaking the natural law, Lear was left a bittered old man who lost what was most precious in his life. Bibliography 1) Abrams, M. H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1993. 2) Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare: the Tragedies. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1964. 3) Heilman, Robert. Shakespeare: the Tragedies (New Perspective). Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 4) Spencer, Theodore. Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1961.