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King Lear

AuthorWilliam Shakespeare

NarratorFull Cast

Duration2h

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations

Key StageA Level

PublisherNaxos

VersionUnabridged

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When foolish King Lear abdicates both his kingdom and his responsibilities, and makes unreasonable demands of his children, his world is turned upside down. This is a play of uncompromising bleakness, where the principles of poetic justice are contravened.

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