King Lear (The Play)

Stock Code:
BAE2940
Price:
$9.50

Description

King Lear (The Play) by William Shakespeare. Edited by Barbara A. Mowit and Paul Werstine. From the Folger Shakespeare Library.'The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play. The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom--one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare's tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.'

Details

  • Author:
    Shakespeare, William
  • Book Condition:
    Good Plus
  • Publisher:
    Simon & Schuster Publishers
  • Edition:
    Reprint
  • Jacket Condition:
    None
  • Binding:
    Soft Cover
  • Location:
    P4
  • ISBN:
    9780743482769
  • Size:
    12mo
  • Pages:
    316
  • Publish Date:
    2009
Stock Level:
1 In Stock
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