The Important Contextual Influences On Shakespeare'S "King Lear"

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Plays were one of the main forms of entertainment in the 16th century and so they had to be very carefully written as it was important that the audiences enjoyed them. Shakespeare relied quite heavily on the pain of real human emotion in his scripts to allow the audience to empathize with the characters and therefore relate the extreme situations in the plays to their own lives...
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The quotation that perhaps best outlines Lear's reason for madness is "O Regan, Goneril, your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all - O, that way madness lies; let me shun that. No more of that." (III, IV, 19-21). Although this is a very important aspect of the plot, it is by no means the only idea that Shakespeare has used within this play...
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