'King Lear is consistent and unchanging through time'...do you agree? The play to be focused on is King Lear. The focussing themes are family and parent- child relationships; authority and the state; and man versus nature. These are the key factors to be studied before coming to a conclusion as to why scholars, critics, dramatists and the ordinary reader in the library find Shakespeare's plays so moving in various ways. The recurring theme of …showed first 75 words of 1693 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1693 total…situation of that time; between 1604- 07 King James was trying to get parliament to approve of the union of England and Scotland. In his introduction to the play, Kenneth Muir quite rightly states that there exists 'a certain mystery' in the characters, and this shows quite simply that the characters contain personalities that are far from mechanical and indeed contain timeless qualities and intentions, which is certainly why the play is so popular even today.