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I named one of my children "Lear" due to my love of Shakespeare and of this play in particular. The older I a get (I am now 50), the better I understand and sympathize with Lear, who is at first reading an irrational old coot that is hard to feel empathy for. Life beats you down, kids aren't always grateful, people you thought were true blue turn out to be snakes in the grass, and there is unexpected grace and good-hearted people to counterpoise the villains. Filial love is a powerful thing. The
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No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out; And take upon’s the mystery of things, As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out, In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of gr
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Simply extraordinary. In my opinion, by far the best of Shakespeare's tragedies, and on top of that, very relevant to the modern world as we, too, seek to transfer authority to our children and perhaps find that we have been too preoccupied with our careers to have the time to understand our children as we should.
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