How you explore King Lear on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 22 characters, 12 places, 18 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 40 passages of King Lear sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as William Shakespeare wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on William Shakespeare instead.
The King Lear feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of King Lear
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Division of the Kingdom
- Edmund's Treachery
- Lear Cast Out
- The Storm
- Poor Tom and the Mock-Trial
- The Blinding of Gloucester
- Never, Never, Never
The author's pen in King Lear
The passages themselves, William Shakespeare's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Dividing the Kingdomch. 1
- Nothing Will Come Of Nothingch. 1
- Nothing Will Come Of Nothingch. 1
- See Better Learch. 1
- She Is Herself a Dowrych. 1
- Cordelia Leaves Her Fatherch. 1
- Stand Up For Bastardsch. 1
- The Hidden Letterch. 1
- Breeding Occasionsch. 1
- Kent Before Learch. 1
- Who Can Tell Mech. 1
- The Fool's Coxcombch. 1
- My Lady's Fatherch. 1
- Lear Curses His Childch. 1
- Ashamed of His Tearsch. 1
- Edgar I Nothing Amch. 2
- Patience, Anger, Madnessch. 2
- Gloucester Secretly Aids the Kingch. 3
- Edmund Betrays Gloucesterch. 3
- Lear Against the Stormch. 3
The characters of King Lear
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Learmajor
- Cordeliamajor
- Gonerilmajor
- Reganmajor
- Gloucestermajor
- Edmundmajor
- Edgarmajor
- Kentmajor
- Foolmajor
- Albanysupporting
- Cornwallsupporting
- Francesupporting
- Burgundysupporting
- Oswaldsupporting
- Old Manminor
- Physicianminor
The locations in King Lear
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Lear’s Palacepalace
- Gloucester’s Castlecastle
- Albany’s Palacepalace
- Before Gloucester’s Castlecastle exterior
- The Open Countrycountryside
- The Heathheath
- Hovel / Farmhouse Shelterhovel
- French Camp near Dovermilitary camp
- Country near Dover / Imagined Cliffcountryside
- British Camp near Dovermilitary camp
- Field between the Campsbattlefield
- Prison Space after Battleprison
The core concepts in King Lear
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Love cannot be forced to perform
- Power without responsibility becomes emptiness
- Sight is not understanding
- Truth enters in lowered forms
- Nature is a dangerous word
- Madness and performance can expose truth
- Age, inheritance, and dependency
- Justice, suffering, and cosmic indifference
- Recognition arrives too late
The objects of note in King Lear
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Map of the Kingdom
- Divided Crown / Coronet
- Cordelia’s Nothing
- Cordelia’s Lost Dowry
- Lear’s Hundred Knights
- Edmund’s Forged Letter
- Kent’s Disguise as Caius
- Fool’s Coxcomb
- Stocks
- Poor Tom’s Rags
- Storm-Exposed Clothing
- Gloucester’s Dangerous Letter
- Chair of Punishment
- Gloucester’s Eyesight
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