...not sure what I made of this. It didn’t shock or move me and I couldn’t always parse what point it was making when it got philosophical.

King Lear is supposedly Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy but I don’t see a peer to Hamlet here, not to mind a superior. I mean... unless it’s his greatest tragedy because its characters are the most miserable? I’m not sure though that that’s the actual quality one desires in the search for what makes a tragedy great.

I think what I really need to do is see Lear staged and re-visit but for now this place-holder view is as much of a shrug as anything.