King Lear

The tragedy "King Lear" is the pinnacle of world drama. Based on the oldest tale of Britain about King Lear and his daughters, Shakespeare created a brilliant play in which sincere feelings and humanity are opposed to hypocrisy and self-interest. The old King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their love for him. Trusting his deceitful and treacherous elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, and rejecting his sincere youngest daughter, Cordelia, Lear soon faces betrayal and cruelty. Gradually descending into madness, he realizes his mistakes, but it is already too late. Against the backdrop of this personal drama, parallel stories of betrayal and loyalty, blindness and insight, power and its downfall unfold. Shakespeare created a brilliant play in which genuine feelings and humanity are opposed to hypocrisy and self-interest, remaining relevant to this day.