Preti Taneja, who adapted William Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy King Lear refuses to see it as the story of a doomed king. In your book We That Are Young, you have re-adapted Shakespeare’s King Lear. Why did you choose King Lear, among all his other plays? King Lear is a microcosmic representation of a patriarchal society, where a man tests how much his daughters love him. Also, I think Lear deserved what he suffered from.

Source: Indian Express January 31, 2018 05:52 UTC