# King Lear

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- Book: [King Lear](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/king-lear) ([King Lear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/king-lear.md))
- Authors: [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1296-911-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2009-04-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry,...