Lear
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- proper noun
- /lɪr/
- Literature
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Lear
- In Shakespeare's tragedy, Lear is a tragic king who faces betrayal from his own daughters.
- King Lear
- Shakespeare's Lear
- Hamlet versus Lear
Remember King Lear the two saintless daughters.
- Remember King Lear the two saintless daughters.
- Shakespeare's King Lear is not the same as Leyeman's story in his Brute.
- And you are howling at the wind like King Lear, blind on the Moors, Unchained from all reality.
- Tragic hero Scarface, Tonya Montana, a formal tragedy, That's King Lear, that's Macbeth, that is a contemporary, that's Scarface.
- Tragic hero Scarface, Tony Montana, a formal tragedy, that's King Lear, that's Macbeth, that is a contemporary, that's Scarface.
- I mean, it's like being offered full staff or King Lear.
Examples
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They still talk about my portrayal of King Lear.
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And you are howling at the wind like King Lear, blind on the Moors, Unchained from all reality.
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And like King Lear said, nothing comes from nothing.
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What did King Lear say?
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I started thinking about King Lear last night.
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Lear believes himself to be a good and responsible monarch.
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We may ask, like King Lear with the dead Cordelia in his arms,
Academic text (2000) -
In return for his patrimony, Lear demands an expression of affection from his daughters.
Academic text (1992) -
Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair at the City Center in New York.
Fiction book (1990) -
After all, the tragedy in King Lear is the tragedy of the "battered" land and the "battered" woman.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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An old king in a play by Shakespeare who loses his mind after his daughters betray him
A legendary British king whose daughters betray him and who appears in Shakespeare's tragedy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lear comes from an old British legend about a king called Leir, a story told long before Shakespeare. So Lear now refers to Shakespeare's tragic 'king' who is betrayed by his daughters and loses his mind.