{"product_id":"king-lear-vintage-shakespeare-paperback","title":"King Lear - Vintage Shakespeare paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShakespeare’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? For all the force of its language, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Aged Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52105091940654,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/5289\/9630\/files\/3F339D81-35EC-4292-939B-344D7E8382EF.jpg?v=1780010829","url":"https:\/\/www.theagedpage.com\/products\/king-lear-vintage-shakespeare-paperback","provider":"The Aged Page","version":"1.0","type":"link"}