KING LEAR - Wordsworth

When a foolish old King abdicates both his kingdom and his responsibilities, and makes unreasonable demands of his children, his world is turned upside down. Without double, King Lear is Shakespeare's finest tragedy. Although it is a play of uncompromising bleakness, it demonstrates a modernism that is unique for its period; in the principle of poetic justice are contravened, and a pitiless fate consumes King Lear and his three daughters.