Reflection on Drama Staging of King Lear by William Shakespeare

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REFLECTION ON DRAMA STAGING OF KING LEAR BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the second semester of PPISMP, TESL students are given out duty to complete an assignment which is staging a play of King Lear by William Shakespeare. Deep in my heart, I am extremely engrossed to perform and start this assignment. As this cohort is foremost to stage King Lear while the previous cohort presented Macbeth also by William Shakespeare. Thus, from the early of this second semester we had struggled to make sure this play will be the best play ever. It was including pointing out rough ideas, completing reading the novel and had few of discussions. We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it. The story of King Lear, an aging monarch who is headstrong old man who is blind to his weaknesses, decides to split his kingdom amongst his three daughters, according to which one recites the best declaration of love. Goneril and Regan who are the selfish daughters of Lear who pretend to love him but later treat him cruelly. While Cordelia is a loyal and unselfish daughter of Lear. He disowns her after confusing her honesty with insolence. Edgar is Gloucester's loyal son and heir and Edmund is Gloucester's evil bastard son. At first the family appear to be loving and caring but this could not be further from the truth. As the characters unfold we find greed, betrayal, lust for power, and cruelty. In other words, they are anything but normal and caring. The end of the play ends in death everywhere. Regan dies after being poisoned by Goneril. Goneril stabs herself to death. Edgar reveals his true identity to his father, but the old man dies. Mortally wounded, Edmund becomes remorseful and countermands his order to hang Cordelia. But it is too late, and Cordelia dies. Lear, now
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