Shakespeare King Lear

A detailed Summary of Shakespeare King Lear

There are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLET

and KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakes

wrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy,

tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they are

very similar tragedies. In both of these stories there is a feud going

on within the family. And in both the feud is between the children and

their parents or relatives. Hamlet is looking for the revenge on his

uncle for killing Hamlets father and hes upset with his mother

marrying the murderer. Here Lears evil daughters try to completely

Lear calls his daughters and asks them who loves the most. Regan and

wins but in process gets cut by a poisonous sword; He dies. And finally

commit murder to get control of the country, just like we see in KING

loosing his life. After Polonia is found dead, Lear totally goes insane

daughter) goes insane and later kills herself. Because Gonerils plan

answers Lear and for that is given away to France, because Lear has

curses them. Now Lear appears to be crazy from his actions, but in

and thinking that his daughter is still alive he dies. And at the very

sister Regan. Hamlets uncle wants to poison Hamlet, but by mistake he

reality he exactly knows what is going on.

HAMLET there is a duel between Hamlet and Polonius son, where Hamlet

Approximate Word count = 509
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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