what is the fourth play about?
King Lear tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in a fawning and obsequious manner.
King Lear
 It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in a fawning and obsequious manner.
shall i compare thee to a summer's day thou art more lovely and more temperate meaning UNANSWERABLE what is this sonnet? Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet.  The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. who wrote it? William Shakespeare who is he? He  was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. where is he from ? Stratford-upon-Avon name few dramas that he has done? "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" what is the second about? It is about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. is this theme borrowed from somewhere? Yes,  "Romeo and Juliet" borrows from a tradition of tragic love stories dating back to antiquity. One of these is Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
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King Lear [SEP] Introduction
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in a fawning and obsequious manner. His third daughter gets nothing, because she will not flatter him as her sisters had done. When he feels he has been treated with disrespect by the two daughters who now have his wealth and power, he becomes furious to the point of madness. He eventually becomes tenderly reconciled to his third daughter, just before tragedy strikes her and then the king.