Recommendations from our site
“Lear is about all sorts of things but one of the things it’s about is people getting old and not ceding what their kids think they should to them and the kids trying to bully them.”
“It’s easily the most profound examination of what it means to be human of anything that I know.”
Stanley Wells recommends the best of Shakespeare’s Plays
Stanley Wells, Literary Scholar
“King Lear is a play that changes your life. How could it not? It asks fundamental questions about who we are.”
René Weis on The Best Plays of Shakespeare
René Weis, Biographer
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On Liberty
by John Stuart MillRecommended 9 times
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War and Peace
by Leo TolstoyRecommended 8 times
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George OrwellRecommended 8 times
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Scoop
by Evelyn WaughRecommended 7 times
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The Looming Tower
by Lawrence WrightRecommended 7 times
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Confessions of St Augustine
by St AugustineRecommended 7 times
