King Lear - Context - Justice

Routledge

King Lear is unlike Shakespeare's early plays because it doesn't end with a "clear sense of resolution and closure and at least with some hope that tragic or comic misdeeds can be redeemed, especially in reuniting warring families". 

Charles Gildon (1710)

Defends Nahum Tate's rewriting as "The King and Cordelia ought by no means to have dy'd".

"We rejoice at the Death of the ******* and the two Sisters, as of Monsters iin Nature under whom the very Earth must groan". 

Harold Bloom

"The prime consequence of such love is only devastation". 

S. L. Goldberg 

"There is no supernatural justice - only human natural justice".