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The Globe (compassion, power, corruption)
King Lear is a nightmarish family drama of global proportions that forces us to confront our humanity and the profound need for compassion
Helena Kaut-Howson (compassion, power, corruption)
It explores the blinding effects of power, and leads us through the seemingly senseless universe to arrive at the need for compassion
Julian Girdham (Lear, power, corruption)
The powerful, privileged, arrogant and utterly self-centred King is thinking of others empathetically, at the bottom of society, and directs his criticism at himself
It has been suggested that… (madness, sanity)
‘the madness that afflicts Lear empowers him to understand the way things really are’
Jan Kott (madness, sanity)
‘the only madness is to see the world as rational’
Gillian Woods (madness, sanity)
‘individuals lose their sense of self and go mad’
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