Comparison Shakespears plays: King Lear vs. Hamlet

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William Shakespeare is probably the greatest dramatist of England. I think everyone has read one of his great plays or at least has seen one of the movies which are based on Shakespeare's work. In this essay I will compare two of his tragedies 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' and 'Tragedy of King Lear'. King Lear is perhaps Shakespeare's most psychologically dark tragedy. The naive and pitiable Lear with his children, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia present …

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…V, scene 3] I think that the plot of both tragedies is different but they have same things such as quarreling between children and parents, also madness and psychological struggles of both protagonists. In both plays you can also see avidity and jealousy which lead to act against humans' relationships - the sisters killed each other, betrayed their father, Edmund betrayed his brother and father, Claudius murdered his brother and wanted to kill his nephew Hamlet.