What Is the Best Companion to King Lear?

AC Bradley begins his Shakespearean Lectures on the tragedies with a long list of things that people or critics always do. We're not going to talk about Shakespeare and his position in history No attempt will be made to compare him with other writers which is remarkably a very astute thing to do because you can't really Compare Shakespeare with other writers when you talk about other writers. It's like coming at this huge beast with little Dainty sword which the metal of that sword will Collapse in on itself as you try to pierce his impenetrable scaly skin.