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Shakespeare everyone can understandnow in new DELUXE editions!
Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeares world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter, along with links to bonus content on the Sparknotes.com website. A Q&A, guided analysis of significant literary devices, and review of the play give students all the tools necessary for understanding, discussing, and writing about King Lear.
The expanded content includes:
Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked questions about major moments and characters in the play.
What Does the Ending Mean?: Is the ending sad, celebratory, ironic . . . or ambivalent?
Plot Analysis: What is the play about? How is the story told, and what are the main themes? Why do the characters behave as they do?
Study Questions: Questions that guide students as they study for a test or write a paper.
Quotes by Theme: Quotes organized by Shakespeares main themes, such as love, death, tyranny, honor, and fate.
Quotes by Character: Quotes organized by the plays main characters, along with interpretations of their meaning.

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NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE Antony and CleopatraAs You Like ItThe Comedy of ErrorsCoriolanusHamletHenry IV, Parts One and TwoHenry VJulius CaesarKing LearMacbethMeasure for MeasureThe Merchant of VeniceA Midsummer Nights DreamMuch Ado About NothingOthelloRichard IIIRomeo and JulietSonnetsThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTwelfth NightTwo Gentlemen of VeronaWinters Tale
Theres matter in these sighs these profound heaves You must translate Tis - photo 3
Theres matter in these sighs, these profound heaves.
You must translate: Tis fit we understand them.
(Hamlet, 4.1.)
FEAR NOT.
Have you ever found yourself looking at a Shakespeare play, then down at the footnotes, then back up at the play, and still not understanding? You know what the individual words mean, but they dont add up. SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare will help you break through all that. Put the pieces together with our easy-to-read translations. Soon youll be reading Shakespeares own words fearlesslyand actually enjoying it. No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeares language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern Englishthe kind of English people actually speak today.
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SPARKNOTES and NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE are registered trademarks of SparkNotes LLC.
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SPARKNOTES and NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE are registered trademarks of SparkNotes LLC.

Play translation and notes 2003 Spark Publishing Expanded study guide material and cover 2019, 2020 SparkNotes LLC This 2020 edition printed for SparkNotes LLC by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-4114-7976-0 For information about custom editions, special sales, and premium and corporate purchases, please contact Sterling Special Sales at 800-805-5489 or . sterlingpublishing.com sparknotes.com Cover design by Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy Interior design by Sharon Jacobs

CONTENTS
PART I
LITERATURE GUIDE
NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE
CHAPTER
1
CONTEXT
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITER in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no farther.

In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part-owner of the Globe Theater. His career bridged the reigns of Elizabeth I (ruled 15581603) and James I (ruled 16031625), and he was a favorite of both monarchs. Indeed, King James granted Shakespeares company the greatest possible compliment, bestowing on its members the title of Kings Men. Wealthy and renowned, Shakespeare retired to Stratford and died in 1616 at age fifty-two.

At the time of his death, literary luminaries such as Ben Jonson hailed his works as timeless. Shakespeares works were collected and printed in various editions in the century following his death, and by the early eighteenth century his reputation as the greatest poet ever to write in English was well established. The unprecedented admiration garnered by his works led to a fierce curiosity about Shakespeares life, but the dearth of biographical information has left many details of Shakespeares personal history shrouded in mystery. Some people have concluded from this fact and from Shakespeares modest education that Shakespeares plays were actually written by someone else Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford are the two most popular candidatesbut support for this claim is overwhelmingly circumstantial, and the theory is not taken seriously by many scholars. In the absence of credible evidence to the contrary, Shakespeare must be viewed as the author of the thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets that bear his name. The legacy of this body of work is immense.

A number of Shakespeares plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance, becoming so influential as to affect profoundly the course of Western literature and culture ever after. Shakespeare authored King Lear around 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, and it is usually ranked with Hamlet as one of Shakespeares greatest plays. The setting of King Lear is as far removed from Shakespeares time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century B.C . But the parallel stories of Lears and Gloucesters sufferings at the hands of their own children reflect anxieties that would have been close to home for Shakespeares audience. One possible event that may have influenced this play is a lawsuit that occurred not long before King Lear was written, in which the eldest of three sisters tried to have her elderly father, Sir Brian Annesley, declared insane so that she could take control of his property. Annesleys youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister.

Another event that Shakespeare and his audience would have been familiar with is the case of William Allen, a mayor of London who was treated very poorly by his three daughters after dividing his wealth among them. Not least among relevant developments was the then-recent transfer of power from Elizabeth I to James I, which occurred in 1603. Elizabeth had produced no male heir, and the anxiety about who her successor would be was fueled by fears that a dynastic struggle along the lines of the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses might ensue. Elizabethan England was an extremely hierarchical society, demanding that absolute deference be paid and respect be shown not only to the wealthy and powerful but also to parents and the elderly. King Lear demonstrates how vulnerable parents and noblemen are to the depredations of unscrupulous children and thus how fragile the fabric of Elizabethan society actually was.

CHAPTER
2
PLOT OVERVIEW
LEAR, THE AGING KING OF BRITAIN, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters.

First, however, he puts his daughters through a test, asking each to tell him how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lears older daughters, give their father flattering answers. But Cordelia, Lears youngest and favorite daughter, remains silent, saying that she has no words to describe how much she loves her father. Lear flies into a rage and disowns Cordelia. The king of France, who has courted Cordelia, says that he still wants to marry her even without her land, and she accompanies him to France without her fathers blessing. Lear quickly learns that he made a bad decision.

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