{"product_id":"king-lear-shakespeare","title":"King Lear by William Shakespeare","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy William Shakespeare\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude  intensity  and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts  engage in violence  or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What  then  keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language  King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated  suggesting that it is the story  in large part  that draws us to the play.   The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty  on the one hand  and support and consolation  on the other. Emotions are extreme  magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability  pride  and  perhaps  wisdom-one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare's tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52798784536856,"sku":"9798890966858","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52798784569624,"sku":"9798890966957","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890966858.jpg?v=1790924435","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/king-lear-shakespeare","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}