This paper seeks to examine Edward Bond's adaptation Lear (1971) which revisits the Shakespearean canonical text and dwells on pressing contemporary issues. Bond has brilliantly and radically transformed the text to make it settle in our contemporary setting seamlessly. This is mainly due to Bond's obsession with and uneasiness with the modern phenomenon of alienation from nature and overexploitation of natural resources. The consequent and inevitable result can be summed up in Roszak's term “urban angst" which has befallen humanity in its entirety. Hence, Bond's Lear builds basically on Lear's displacement to the countryside, and the impact of Lear's bonding with nature and innocent people. It additionally sheds light on Lear's psychological journey and his transformation through reconciliation with nature, and approaching the entire range of creatures with more empathy and understanding. Accordingly, the text lends itself to an ecopsychological, and more specifically a phenomenological, reading focusing specifically on Lear's dramatic transformation and developing a new mindset or an “earthmind".