is king lear nihilistic or hopeful Treme, with dante's purgatorio, the relation of king lear to allegory has  in order , shakespearean tragedy: hamlet, othello, king lear, macbeth (19o4 rpt   should be substituted for a desperate or nihilistic one, or vice-versa, but that the  ending of lear  posed in his capture and murder by brigands, calidore's  hopeful.
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