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We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan, and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail. The ideas suggested here provide plenty of scope for debate.  \n‘Was this a face  \nTo be opposed against the warring winds?  \nTo stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?  \nOverview  \nThe full title of Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of King Lear firmly establishes the play in the tragic genre, though as is often the case with Shakespeare, the play asks more questions than it answers. Central to the narrative is the eponymous king of eighth century England and father of three daughters. The main plot opens with a most elaborate ceremony with the king describing how he has 'divided in three our kingdom' so that he can 'unburdened crawl towards death' so that 'future strife may be prevented now' . The irony is heavy and the opening is full of tragic implication. Even though the play is set in a pre-Christian world, Lear's abdication, given the political and religious beliefs at the time when Shakespeare was writing (1604-1605), contravenes the natural order. While the division of the kingdom might be an octogenarian's whim, as king by divine right and God's representative on earth, he should not abnegate responsibility, no matter how attractive, and hand control to his daughters. Far from preventing strife, his decision makes it inevitable, not least of all because despite his abdication, Lear continues to see himself as king. His bad judgement is foregrounded in the opening, and is compounded by his excessive pride and vanity.  \nLear's hubris is dramatised in his desire to hear his daughters compete, in what is often called the love test, for the largest slice of land by saying which of them'doth love us most' (though, of course, there is no real competition: he has saved the best bit for Cordelia-what can she say to draw a third 'more opulent' than her sisters) . When Cordelia refuses to play the game, his decision to banish and disown her, in favour of Goneril and Regan sets in place the wheel of fire-that which secures not only his personal downfall into madness but also that of his country which is cast into civil war and laid open to invasion from France. In the play, Shakespeare also creates a subplot which runs parallel to the central story. This focuses on the tragic fall of Gloucester. Gloucester's pride, moral weaknesses and misjudgement of his two sons, leaves him vulnerable to the schemes of Edmund, his illegitimate son, whose desire to overturn custom, have his father’s recognition, title and lands is laid out in his antagonistic soliloquy where he states 'Well then legitimate Edgar, I must have your land' . Gloucester's terrible physical blinding parallels Lear's descent into madness. The play ends bleakly despite the English victory in the war with France. At the end almost all the major characters are dead: Lear, Gloucester, Cordelia, Goneril, Regan, Cornwall and Edmund. There are moments of catharsis (Lear’s realisation of Cordelia’s worth, Gloucester's understanding that he was blind when he had eyes and Edmund's intention to do some good before he dies) but those moments all come too late. It could be argued that whereas in Hamlet 'the rest is silence', in King Lear, the rest is nothingness.  \nChaos and disorder  \n'Nothing' is a key word and concept in this play. Cordelia's reply of 'Nothing' to Lear's request to tell him how much she loves him, is the catalyst for his uncontrollable rage. The subplot also begins with a focus on 'nothing' . Edmund's deliberate and manipulative use of 'nothing' when Gloucester asks him what he is reading triggers Gloucester's curiosity and anger. He is led by the nose as anass to believe that Edmund is reading a letter, apparently written by Edg","cbCaiapTZMoT7Pgo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiapTZMoT7Pgo","pdf",177713,"English","# Overview\n# Chaos and disorder\n# Power and the tragic hero","[{\"question\":\"How does the document explain King Lear’s status as a tragedy?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the full title explicitly places the play in the tragic genre, while Shakespeare raises more questions than answers. 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