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King Lear Paperback - 1994

by William Shakespeare

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First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth.
The plot concerns a monarch betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Greed, treachery, and cruelty are rife and the denouement of the play is both brutal and heartbreaking. In fact, so troubling is its vision of man's life that, until the mid-19th century, the play was performed most often with a non-Shakespearean happy ending, with Lear back on his throne and Cordelia, the daughter nearest his heart, happily married to the noble Edgar. But there is a dark magnificence to Shakespeare's original vision of the Lear story, and the play is performed today essentially as he wrote it, uncompromised by later "improvements." King Lear is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.

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As well as the complete scripts (established by scholars working on the New Cambridge Shakespeare), the student will find a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words, and a wide range of classroom-tested activities to help turn the script into drama.

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  • Title King Lear
  • Author William Shakespeare
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
  • Publication date 1994-06-16
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780486280585 / 0486280586
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.02 cm)
  • Age range 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress subjects Fathers and daughters, Britons
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93041036
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

About the author

"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.

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