King Lear

William Shakespeare

⏱ 8 minDrama

An old king divides his kingdom by a love-test, banishes the daughter who loves him, and is cast out by the two who flatter him, into madness, a storm, and a piled ruin of deaths. Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy.

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