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King Lear
- Title
- King Lear / William Shakespeare ; edited by Michael R. Best with Alexa Alice Joubin.
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Publication
- Peterborough : Broadview Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-517 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 381 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "King Lear is a play for our times. The central characters experience intense suffering in a hostile and unpredictable world. They face domestic cruelty, political defeat, and a stormy external environment that invades them "to the skin." They constantly question the meaning of their experiences as we watch their emotions range from despair to rage to unexpected tenderness and desperate hope as they are rejected, even tortured. Lear's daughters, as in a fairy tale, are three strong women. The elder two vie for sexual and political power, while the youngest, Cordelia, is initially banished because of her plain speaking, then returns in a doomed attempt to restore her father to his throne. King Lear has an unusual performance history. It was significantly revised, by Shakespeare or others, between its first two publications, and was then succeeded by an adaptation that softened the ending so that Lear and Cordelia survived. In our own times King Lear is performed around the world in productions that explore its relevance to contemporary political and environmental challenges. This edition offers a distinctive 'extended' text, taking the later Folio as a starting point and adding the lines that appear only in the Quarto, distinguished by a light gray background. Variations in individual words that are of critical interest are recorded in the margin."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-517
- ISBN
- 9781554815142
- 1554815142
- OCLC
- 1356910439
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
- Title
- King Lear / William Shakespeare ; edited by Michael R. Best with Alexa Alice Joubin.
- Publisher
- Peterborough : Broadview Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Added Author
- Best, Michael R., editor.Joubin, Alexa Alice, 1973- editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Peterborough : Broadview Press, 2023 146040789X 9781460407899 (OCoLC)1356910349
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-517