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Shakespeare and King Lear



Introduction

King Lear (The Tragedy of King Lear) considered one of the outstanding tragedies from the pen of William Shakespeare. The production year is probably 1605. The play was at the 26th December 1606 premiered at the English court. The first pressure is in the Quartoausgabe of 1607 / 1,608 William Shakespeare: His True Chronicle of Life and Death of King Lear and his three Daughters, "With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his fill and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam "before. In the folio edition of 1623, the piece included in the section entitled The Tragedy of King Lear.

The person King Lear and his story based on the figure of King Leir, one of the legendary kings of Britain from Roman times to turn on the Celtic sea god Llyr back. The forecast was at that time already in stories, poems and verses as well as dramas processed. Its basic structure found in the Historia Regum Britanniae (around 1135) of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales (Grendler, pp. 84-87).Discussion

The first performance of King Lear was probably in 1605 at London's Globe Theatre instead. Ralf Weskamp that "one can assume that the drama in Shakespeare's contemporaries, was less popular than about Hamlet or Othello. This may be the reason why Nahum Tate altered the piece in 1681 to meet the tastes of the audience better. He gets rid of the fool and Cordelia and Edgar makes a loving couple. In the end, pull Gloucester, Lear and Kent back to her hack part, leaving Cordelia and Edgar a kingdom that will lead them again to flourish. Tate's version was so popular that they are more than 150 years, was on stage, and the first performance in America (1754) followed this version. In intellectual circles, however, criticism encouraged. Charles Lamb laments in his essay On the Tragedies of Shakespeare (1811), the absurdity of a happy ending. At the same time, however, he points out that Shakespeare's Lear to read more suitable for the performance was, because just reading it possible to put them completely in Lear. 1817 praises William Hazlitt in his Characters of King Lear, Shakespeare's Plays as the best drama of Shakespeare.

Other critics of Romanticism (Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Schlegel) bring the drama back into the consciousness of readers and viewers. 1823 plays Edmund Kean as Lear, then the tragic ending, and in 1834 was William Charles Macready, the complete text of Shakespeare at Drury Lane Theatre (London) listed again. In contrast, AW Schlegel's view that in a majestic sweep all difficulties (historical context, internal logic) flies over (Harrison, pp. 61-64), but has become perhaps the most authoritative modern interpretation is: Is "The pessimism of Hamlet here far surpassed ... Even Shakespeare's imagination has usually never worked in such enormous dimensions. Consider the scene in the hut Lear, Edgar and the Fool, the real, the played and the professional madness, a terrible symphony of humanity, while the earth quakes of thunderstorms seems to shout out all their ...