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A 16 page paper which examines how Pericles and the Winter’s Tale, by Shakespeare, are romantic revisions of the tragedies King Lear and Othello, also by Shakespeare. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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His works have examined the position of humanity, the nature of mankind, the struggles concerning gender and society, and also the sheer simplistic elements of comedy. For the most part
it seems that his works were either considered to be tragedies or comedies. And, even in some of his tragedies we can see comedy, and vice versa. With such a
diverse range in themes and perspectives it comes as no surprise that Shakespeares works can be explicated and analyzed from many perspectives. One such perspective is how he takes tragedies
and makes other stories that are quite similar, but turns them into more romantic or light hearted stories. The following paper examines how Shakespeare uses romance as a revision of
tragedy. The tragedies discussed are King Lear and Othello. The romantic revisions discussed are Pericles and Winters Tale. King Lear King Lear is one of the most powerful
tragedies that was written by Shakespeare. His tale presents us with the tragic deception and lies between family members and the pursuit of selfish desires at the cost of the
lives of others. It is a story that tells of the sad realities associated with making the wrong decisions through ignorance, and generally presents us with almost every possible
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual is King Lear himself. He is a
man who is somewhat arrogant in his position as king, not an unheard of reality, and a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through
his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest, will respond as he desires. However, because she does not coddle him and essentially suck up to him, giving him honesty
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