This document provides an introduction to William Shakespeare and his play King Lear. It gives biographical details about Shakespeare and lists some of the main characters in King Lear, including Lear, Regan, Cordelia, Gloucester and Edmund. It then discusses major themes in the play such as betrayal, loyalty, power, blindness and insight, and madness and sanity. It concludes by summarizing that King Lear is a tragic play about power, familial relationships, madness and betrayal, ending with the deaths of many characters including Lear and Cordelia in a sense of profound loss.

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Karmani
Mahesh Kumar
Mudasir Abro
Introduction of The
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Zohaib Shar

4. King
Lear
By : William
Shakespeare

5. WILLIAM
SHAKESPE
AUTHOR
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-
upon-Avon, England, in April 1564.
He was an English playwright, poet and actor,
widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language.
 He is often called the national poet of England,
was referred as the “Bard of Evan.”
His extent work including 39 plays, 154
sonnets, and 3 long narrative poems and few
other verses.
Genre including history, comedy, and tragedy
etc. King Lear is one of them

6. CHARACTERS
REGAN
CORDELIA
THE DUKE OF
CORNWALL
THE KING OF
FRANCE
THE DUKE OF
ALBANY
GONERIL

7. CHARACTERS
THE EARL
OF
GLOUCESTE
R
EDMUN
D
EDGA
R
THE FOOL

8. Themes
Betrayal and
Loyalty
“Love is too young to know what conscience
is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of
love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my
amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self
prove.”
“They that have power to hurt, and will do
none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as
stone,
Power and Authority

9. Blindness and Insight
“The charge of moral blindness more typically seems
little more than name calling,, where we blithely
dismiss the intuitions of those who disagree with us,
assuming without my further evidence than the mere
fact of the disagreement itself that it is they who are
blind, rather than us.”
“When humans are not able to
fathom the behavior, actions, and
motivations of others, they dismiss
them as insane.”
Madness and
Sanity

10. CONCLUSION
"King Lear" is a tragic play by William
Shakespeare that delves into themes of power,
madness, familial relationships, and betrayal.
The conclusion of the play sees the tragic
deaths of many characters, including Lear and
his youngest daughter Cordelia. The play ends
with a sense of profound loss and the futility of
human striving in the face of fate. Despite
Lear's tragic journey towards self-awareness
and redemption, the play concludes with a
sombre reminder of the consequences of