Usually means: Tragic downfall of flawed monarch.
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  1. king lear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. King Lear: Vocabulary.com
  3. King Lear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  4. King Lear: Dictionary.com
  5. King Lear (baseball), King Lear (disambiguation), King Lear (play), King Lear, King lear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. King lear: Rhymezone
  7. king lear: FreeDictionary.org
  8. king lear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. King Lear: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. King Lear (play), King Lear: Encyclopedia

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  1. King Lear, King Lear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. King Lear, King Lear: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (King Lear)

noun:  The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
noun:  a video production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, directed by Michael Elliott.
noun:  Charles Bernard "King" Lear (January 23, 1891 – October 31, 1976) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played two seasons of Major League Baseball.
noun:  a 1987 American film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the avant-garde style of French New Wave cinema.
noun:  a 2008 television film based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name, directed by Trevor Nunn.
noun:  a tragedy by William Shakespeare, named for the pseudohistorical king of Britannia Leir of Britain.
noun:  a 1971 British film adaptation of the Shakespeare play directed by Peter Brook and starring Paul Scofield.
noun:  a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear.
noun:  a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.
noun:  a 1953 live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play staged by Peter Brook and starring Orson Welles.
noun:  a 1910 Italian silent historical drama film directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio and starring Ermete Novelli, Francesca Bertini and Olga Giannini Novelli.
noun:  a 1916 silent film based on the 1606 play, directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring his father, the noted stage actor Frederick Warde.
noun:  a 2018 British-American television film directed by Richard Eyre.
noun:  a 1978 Australian play by David Williamson.
noun:  King Lear, Op. 137, is a film score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear by Grigori Kozintsev, based on Shakespeare's tragedy.

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