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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingNot my favourite play, but I did read it for completeness. A king, worn down by the trammells of office, divides his domain among his children and suffers from the flaws in his parenting. He is ... Read full review
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User Review - thornton37814 - LibraryThingThis full-cast audio recording tells the story of King Lear who unwisely divided his inheritance based on his perception of how much each daughter loved him. We see how this leads to a life of ... Read full review
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| Title | King Lear Scholar's library The new Eversley Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Frederick Edward Budd |
| Publisher | Macmillan & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 1427073848, 9781427073846 |
| Length | 185 pages |
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