🎙️ King Lear — The Breaking of a King
What if the most dangerous question ever asked… was not about power—but about love?
Tonight on Chesterton Radio, we step into King Lear, not as a distant classic, but as a living, unraveling human story. A king divides his kingdom. A daughter refuses to perform. And in a single moment, the world begins to break.
This is not just the fall of a ruler.
It is the tragedy of a man who demanded love on his own terms—and discovered too late what love actually is.
Drawing from the full text of the play and the haunting Mercury Theatre King Lear broadcast, we explore:
* Why Lear’s “love test” is more…
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