King Lear is a play in which many of the major characters undergo suffering -- everything from exile, imprisonment, madness, filial ingratitude, madness, mutilation, despair, to extreme physical deprivation. Yet , at the same time, many of these same characters have ideas about the purpose and limits of suffering. What are some of the those ideas? How are they related to the idea of a cosmic moral order, that idea that the world is just if we could only discover its deeper meaning? How is it related to the ideas about moral order expressed in other plays, such as Henry IV, Part 1 or the Merchant of Venice? Do the events of the play endorse or undermine these ideas? What is this play telling us about suffering?
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