Soap Opera Shakespeare
... William Shakespeare used a parallel plot in his play “King Lear.” Shakespeare created “twin plots” between Gloucester and Lear to emphasize their fatherhood follies. This parallelism can and will be displayed using examples from the “King Lear” script as recorded in The Riverside Shakespeare. ... So what does Shakespeare have to do with soap operas? Well, despite the many love triangles and “evil” characters, that both Soap operas and Shakespeare are well known for, soap operas often use sub plotting as a way of allowing the audience to experience two storylines at once. ... Shakespeare through his twin plot was also able to bring to life the symbolism of Lear’s blindness through Gloucester’s literally having his eyes gouged out. ... Shakespeare drove the great individual Lear “out of all his human connections with family and state out on to the health, into total isolation where he must show himself great in his “ruin” (Dollimore 229). ... Parallelism is evident throughout the entirety of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”.