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1) King Lear
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Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in new DELUXE editions! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeare's world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter, along with links to bonus content on...
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"For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. The edition retains the Textual Analysis of the previous editor, Jay L. Halio, shortened and with a new preface by Brian Gibbons. Professor Halio, accepting that we have two versions of equal authority,...
4) King Lear
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King Lear is one of the greatest tragedies by Shakespeare. The play is focused around Lear, the aging King of Britain, and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. When Lear wants to step down from the throne, he decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and asks each daughter how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, greedy for their share, give him flattering answers, while Cordelia remains silent, which enrages Lear and...
5) King Lear
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Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
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"King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king--Edgar--has often seemed little more than a blank, ignored and unloved, a belated moralizer who, try as he may, can never truly speak to the play's savaged heart. He saves his blinded father from suicide, but even this act of care is shadowed by suspicions of...
7) King Lear
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Shakespeare's plays in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
8) King Lear
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The Thames Shakespeare Collection presents this compelling production of King Lear performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
9) King Lear
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This volume features a newly edited text of King Lear based on the earliest printed text of the play, along with detailed notes and performance annotations.
10) King Lear
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Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters.
12) King Lear
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare's saddest plays. Old King Lear loved his youngest daughter, Cordelia, much more than he loved his other two daughters. One day, Lear asked all his daughters to tell him how much they loved him. The two eldest daughters lied and said that they loved him more than anything else. But Cordelia wouldn't lie like her sisters. She wouldn't say that she loved her father even more than she would love her husband. King Lear became...