Who said hope for the best but prepare for the worst

It the earliest known tragedy written in English and the first full length play composed in blank verse. Not considered a work of great literary merit, the play's subject matter is an ancient British monarch who quarrels with his two sons. It warns the young Queen of the dangers of misgovernment and depicts a family and a country torn apart by civil war.

A bit over forty years later, Shakespeare wrote King Lear first produced in At first glance it might seem that he took the idea of a king quarreling with his children from The Tragedie of Gorbuduc and upped the ante from two sons to three daughters. But actually, his tragedy is based on the story of Leir, a legendary king of the Britons who makes his first appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae written in the 12th century.

According to Geoffrey, Leir and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, were descendants of Brutus of Troy the legendary founder of Britain , who in turn was a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas. A daring first novel—both buoyant comedy and devastating satire by the author of Say You're One of Them. Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.

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