After reading “Hamlet,” a rather wild Romantic play where we saw a young prince find himself just before being killed, it should be challenging to read “King Lear,” a wide ranging 1605 Modernist tragedy about a rash old king who loses his realm, his family, his reason, and his favorite daughter, Cordelia, before dying of grief. But watch out, some have found Lear so painful that they have rewritten it to keep Lear and Cordelia alive to live happily ever after. Are you ready, brave Osherites, for the challenges of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies? We certainly hope so.
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