文档介绍：The book review of King Lear
King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s famous tragedies .Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and he decides to divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters. Firstly, however, he puts his daughters go through a test which asks each of them to tell him how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lear’s older daughters, give their father flattering answers and make the old king very cheerful. But Cordelia, Lear’s youngest and favorite daughter says that she has no words to describe how much she loves her father. She says that after she gets married she will give her husband half of her love and another half for her father. Lear is very angry and disowns Cordelia. The king of France who has courted Cordelia was deeply moved by her sincere. He says that he still wants to marry her even without her land. With a pity Cordelia panies the French king to France without her father’s blessing.
Lear quickly realizes that he made a bad decision. Goneril and Regan swiftly begin to deprive the little authority that Lear still holds. They treat him cold and without passions
. Because of unable to believe that his beloved daughters are tormenting him, Lear slowly goes mad. He leaves from his daughters’ houses to be honor .Unfortunately he runs up against a great thunderstorm with his Fool and Kent who is a loyal minister of his.