King Lear

William Shakespeare

HörbücherEnglisch3 Std. 23 Min.

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Old King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to how much each says she loves him. Goneril and Regan flatter him and…

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Autor: William Shakespeare
Gelesen von: John Gonzalez, Denny Sayers, JemmaBlythe and 21 other readers
Dauer: 3:23:02
Teile: 5
Sprache: Englisch
Quelle: LibriVox · Internet Archive

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Old King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to how much each says she loves him. Goneril and Regan flatter him and receive everything; Cordelia, who loves him most, will not perform her love and is banished. Stripped of his power by the two elder daughters, Lear rages on a heath in a storm with his Fool and descends into madness, while in a parallel story the Earl of Gloucester is betrayed by one son and blinded, and saved by the other.

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Shakespeare wrote King Lear around 1606, and it is often counted the greatest and the most painful of his tragedies. This is a dramatic reading by a cast of LibriVox volunteers, each taking a part, in about three and a half hours.

This is a LibriVox recording, read by volunteers and dedicated to the public domain; its audio files are kept by the Internet Archive, which plays and serves them here. Public-domain status differs from country to country, so check the law where you live before republishing it. Haben Sie Rechte an diesem Werk? Entfernung beantragen