Treatment of Violence in King Lear and Bond’s Lear

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to examine Bond’s Lear in relation to which it "stands to Shakespeare’s great original" (Smith 194). Both plays deal with the issues of political and economic power and investigates the relation of aggression and violence present within nature of human beings when it comes to their struggle over supremacy and rule. This paper focuses tendency of ruling individuals to assert aggression and violence and research work tends to explore both plays in the light of Bond’s Preface to his version of Lear