King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by Shakespeare in which an aging king divides his realm among his daughters based on their flattery, then descends into madness when the two who flattered him prove cruel.
The play explores themes of aging, filial ingratitude, and the collapse of authority.
He's gone full King Lear suggests someone in dramatic decline or raging against circumstances of their own making.
Severe atmospheric disturbance
- heathOpen land with shrubs
- lunacyExtreme irrational foolishness
- derangementDisturbed mental state
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
raving · unhinged · crazed · Edgar · hovel · nakedness · reason · folly
Purification through emotional expression
- pathosPity-evoking quality
- hubrisRuinous excessive confidence
- fatePredetermined course of events
- downfallSudden loss of power
suffering · despair · anguish · grief · sorrow · doom · calamity · woe
Disastrous or sorrowful event
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- JacobeanPertaining to King James's reign
- Globe TheatreHistoric circular London playhouse
- FolgerAmerican coffee company
Stratford-upon-Avon · quarto · soliloquy · iambic pentameter · blank verse · dramaturgy · groundlings · thee
Irish feminine name
- EdmundMale name, prosperity guardian
- treacheryDeliberate violation of trust
- ingratitudeLack of appreciation
- disloyaltyBreach of allegiance
perfidy · duplicitous · falsehood · filial · disinheritance · banishment · cruelty · heartlessness
Supreme independent authority
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
dominion · rule · reign · tyranny · despotism · governance · supremacy · control
Splitting into parts
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- dowryMarital property transfer
- bequestGift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
primogeniture · succession · patrimony · heir · entitlement · portion · thirds · map
storm
Severe atmospheric disturbance
- heathOpen land with shrubs
- lunacyExtreme irrational foolishness
- derangementDisturbed mental state
delusion · raving · unhinged · crazed · Edgar · hovel · nakedness · reason · folly · wisdom
catharsis
Purification through emotional expression
downfall · suffering · despair · anguish · grief · sorrow · doom · calamity · woe · pity
tragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- JacobeanPertaining to King James's reign
- Globe TheatreHistoric circular London playhouse
Folger · Stratford-upon-Avon · quarto · soliloquy · iambic pentameter · blank verse · dramaturgy · groundlings · thee · thou
Regan
Irish feminine name
- EdmundMale name, prosperity guardian
- treacheryDeliberate violation of trust
- ingratitudeLack of appreciation
disloyalty · perfidy · duplicitous · falsehood · filial · disinheritance · banishment · cruelty · heartlessness · manipulation
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
authority · dominion · rule · reign · tyranny · despotism · governance · supremacy · control · command
division
Splitting into parts
legacy · primogeniture · succession · patrimony · heir · entitlement · portion · thirds · map · coronet
- King
- 1600s WorksParadise Lost, Leviathan, Don Quixote, Hamlet, Macbeth
- Fictional LeadersPalpatine, Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Big Brother, Macbeth
- Shakespeare studiesRomeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
King LearA Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest · As You Like It · Much Ado About Nothing · Twelfth Night · The Comedy of Errors
King LearSolomon
Peaceable Hebrew name
Prospero · Marcus Aurelius · Theseus · Henry V · Good King Wenceslas
king, kingdom, kings, kingpin, kingdoms, kingly, kingship, kinglet, kingmaker