King Lear Summary

King Lear is yet another tragedy by Shakespeare. It conveys Shakespeare's usual use of knowledge, or lack of it to be more specific, to set up a base of intrigue that the chracters make for themselves. The characters cannot escape their fate, even as they realize what treachery has befallen them the whole time. King Lear is an intricate play in which Shakespeare uses the actions of nature to show what is going on inside of the characters, which leads to not only the characters approaching a state of frenzy, but also the very nature which is around the characters.