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- Steve Jobs: "I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technology — Shakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear." source ↗
Summary
Shakespeare's tragedy of an aging king who divides his kingdom among his three daughters based on their flattery, disinheriting the honest Cordelia while rewarding the deceitful Goneril and Regan. Stripped of power and shelter, Lear descends into madness on a heath during a storm, in a play that explores filial ingratitude, justice, madness, and the nature of authority with uncompromising intensity.