Shakespeare's King Lear

Introduction

Many people concentrate this on this article on regarding the novelties introduced in two contemporary rewritings of Shakespeare's King Lear: Lear by Edward Bond and Rey Lear, by the Argentine writer Roderigo Garcia. If war, violence, torture and social injustice are key issues in the Three Plays, Bond and Garcia make a new use of two metaphors, the one of the wall which is not present in Shakespeare's play and the animal imagery, which Takes on a different meaning. In Bond's Lear, the function of protection is illusory: a wall inevitably turns Into a Prison Before turning ...