nd focused on a specific type of tragedy? Was Shakespeare displeased with one or the other when he wrote them? these are some of the questions that are raised in my mind when I read the similarities of the plays and comprehend how close together they were produced. In reading the texts on King Lear there seemed to be a vast amount of criticism concerning the play involving its adaptability for stage, its dramatic clearness, and its acceptability. The basis of King Lear's unpopularity among the "fab' four" seems to be due to the extreme painfulness of the catastrophe, its dramatic defects, and a failure to most readers to grasp peculiar effects that Shakespeare includes in the play. Some feel that Shakespeare was a genius that had alternate meanings for many of his plot lines, including and especially King Lear. Lear's insanity weakens his coherence and poetic imagination but it stimulates his time of reflection and moral perception. It is wonderful things like this that do make works such as King Lear one of the best works that William Shakespeare had ever produced....
