King Lear the realm of which the king is head, not to Lear himself, and he tells Lear to behave better for the good of the realm. By contrast, Lear makes an argument similar to James that as king, he holds absolute power and could disregard the views of his subjects if they displease him whenever he liked. In the play, the characters like the Fool, Kent and Cordelia, whose loyalties are institutional, seeing their first loyalty to the realm, are portrayed more favorably than those like Regan and Goneril, who insist they are only loyal to the king, seeing their loyalties
H. S. Shivaprakash and Girish Karnad's "Taledanda". Shivaprakash won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award for this play. His other plays include "Sultan Tipu", "Shakespeare Swapnanauke", "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", "Madari Madayya", "Madurekanda", "Madhavi", "Matrika", "Makarachandra", "Sati", "Cassandra" and "Maduvehennu". He has also translated Shakespeare's "King Lear" and adapted Federico García Lorca's "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife" into Kannada under the title "Mallammana Mane Hotlu" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth" under the name "Maranayakana Drishtanta". "Manteswamy Kathaprasanga", a play about a 16th-century Dalit saint was made into a successful stage adaptation by director Suresh Anagalli and produced over 300 shows. It kindled interest in this obscure saint and the