King Lear
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Beschreibung
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.
An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.
The only introduction to 'King Lear' on the market which offers a theatrical commentary, enabling students to get a sense of the play as a performance text
Responds to the increasing interest in the plays as performance
Written byan internationally well-regarded scholar of Shakespeare
Autor*in
John Russell Brown
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