Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Shakespeares <i>King Lear</i> challenges us with the magnitude intensity and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts engage in violence or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What then keeps bringing us back to <i>King Lear</i>? For all the force of its language <i>King Lear</i> is almost equally powerful when translated suggesting that it is the story in large part that draws us to the play.<BR> <BR>The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty on the one hand and support and consolation on the other. Emotions are extreme magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability pride and perhaps wisdomone reason this most devastating of Shakespeares tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.<BR> <BR>The authoritative edition of <i>King Lear</i> from The Folger Shakespeare Library the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers?? includes:<BR> <BR>-Freshly edited text based on