>>24840416
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age;
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburthen'd crawl toward death.

>why'd he do it bros? His reasoning is dogshit.

>>24840416
othello is better

>>24841662
Why is your first thought to compare something to something else?

>>24840416
Best thing I've ever seen on stage t.b.h.
Strange that there hasn't been a good film adaptation (unless you include Ran, which is heavily adapted.)

>>24840419
Yeah, Shakespeare should have written people as they really are, absolutely rational beings who always know what they want and the best way to get it

>>24840416
Did you know that the first mention (as far as I know) of King Lear comes from the same work as the first mention of King Arthur?
The Historia Regum Britanniae

>>24841662
Nay, characters in Othello are too dumb to enjoy, King Lear feels real, is real.

>>24842287
I don't like adaptations unless they do go in a markedly different place, then it's cool.

>>24842292
Yes, as everyone knows, the only two ways to write human characters are as ultra-rational robots who always behave according to formula or as completely unpredictable abstractions who behave seemingly without any properly defined motives or psychological substance. There is NO realistic middle ground between these two extremes and how DARE anyone try to criticize the Genius Bard instead of blindly fellating every single aspect of his works.