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Does the Fool present the voice of reason in Shakespeare's King Lear? William Shakespeare wrote King Lear in seventeenth century. It is one of Shakespeare's most horrific and bloodthirsty tragedies, with most of the main characters dead at the end of the play, the Fool included. Many believe that the play is a compound of other texts, some originally written as early as 1135 A.D. The main source Shakespeare used is thought to be The Chronicle History of King Leir, which is very similar to Shakespeare's version, but he changed genre of the play from a tragic-comedy to a tragedy. Shakespeare's main change from the Chronicle History is the ending, in all other accounts Lear is restored to the throne and his daughter's lives are spared, instead Shakespeare makes Goneril and Regan's jealousy of each other the cause of their deaths, and the political misconceptions between the other characters the cause...

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