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King Lear

William Shakespeare

Fiction

Shakespeare's tragedy of an aging king who divides his kingdom among his daughters and unravels into madness. A favorite of Steve Jobs's teenage reading.

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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.'”

    HuffPost reading-list article quoting Jobs from Isaacson's biography: 'Shakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear.'

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