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King Lear William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright and poet. Through a wide variety of characters, he expressed a profound knowledge of the human behavior to display the deepest levels of human motivation in individual, social, and universal situations. Shakespeare's third period produced some of his greatest tragedies. King Lear (1604) deals with the consequences and misjudgments of Lear. Throughout this story the is a pervasive sense of doom. The division of Lear 's kingdom was made on the basis of professed love, Cordelia was rejected because she said 'Nothing , my Lord.' Lear responded, 'Nothing.' Cordelia again answered, 'Nothing.' Lear replied, 'Nothing will come of nothing, speak again.' ...'Give but that portion which yourself proposed...' Lear responded 'Nothing! I have sworn; I am firm.' Lear was a ruler in early Britain and his irresponsibility and that of his counselor, the Duke of Gloucester led to tragedy for all. The tragedy was a result of his giving power to their evil children rather than their good children. The conclusion is reinforce by the portrayal of evil as self-defeating. The examples are Cordelia's sisters and Gloucester's opportunistic son receiving nothing, lear, gloucester, tragedy, often, human, good, cordelia, love, evil, two, son, king, children, sisters, shakespeares, responded, replied, professed, power, plots, one, nature, made, lord, knowledge, kingdom, just, hero, greatest, fool, edmund, edgar, daughters, daughter