6/29/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare king lear book![]() ![]() I say “curious” since when I was younger and had read King Lear no one in whatever class it was when I read the play in college had mentioned Alzheimer’s in relation to this play. Nonetheless, it was impressive and an curious read. It didn’t come to the high points for me that plays like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and so many of the history plays. I must admit, I was suspecting to be more moved and delighted with my reading that I was. In this three year project to read one of Shakespeare’s plays each month, I had been saving King Lear until near the end as sort of a reward for reading a few of the weaker plays along the way. It has been more than 50 years since I first read King Lear. See: List of Shakespeare’s play’s I’ve read and commented on COMMENTS ON However, I will keep a separate page listing each play I’ve read with links to any comments I would make of that particular play. At this time I have no idea how the project will go, nor if it will actually lead me through the entire corpus of Shakespeare’s plays. ![]() Thus I began with The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I wanted to go back, start with something not too serious or challenging, and work my way through the whole corpus. I hadn’t read a Shakespeare play since 1959, 50 years ago! But I had read nearly all of them in college. General Note: In January 2009 I decided that I’d like to go back and read all the plays of William Shakespeare, perhaps one a month if that works out. Book review - KING LEAR By William Shakespeare ![]()
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