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King Lear

Part of the Shakespeare Handbooks series
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King Lear is widely considered to be Shakespeare's greatest and most challenging play.

This unique volume features:* a scene-by-scene commentary that traces the play's on-stage life and an audience's progressive experience of performance* a close reading of the text that leads to a re-assessment of the tragedy's achievement* discussion of the play's sources, and its cultural and political context* accounts of major performances on stage and screen, and of notable critical assessments.Inspiring and stimulating, this essential study of King Lear in both text and performance offers a path to a fuller knowledge of Shakespeare's verbal, theatrical and imaginative art.

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Palgrave Macmillan
113701914X / 9781137019141
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
822.33
14/09/2009
England
English
156 pages
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