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A Guide to William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'

By: John Lennard
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 This book aims to introduce students (including those with little or no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and his theatre revealed in King Lear. It begins by ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ as utterly a man of the theatre, a professional actor before he was a playwright and a resident dramatist who knew intimately the actors for whom he wrote. It continues by discussing ‘King Lear’ in that light. The middle chapters look in detail at the ‘Actors and Players’ of the drama, and at Shakespeare’s favourite ‘Acts and Devices’ as deployed within it. A final chapter considers the concept of 'comedic agony'. The annotated Bibliography includes the current major editions, major film-adaptations, and a selection of both the best criticism and the most useful websites. John Lennard took his B.A. and D.Phil. at Oxford University, and his M.A. at Washington University in St Louis. He has taught Shakespeare via all 37 plays and the poetry in the Universities of London, Cambridge, and Notre Dame, and for the Open University. His publications include ‘But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse’ (Clarendon Press, 1991), ‘The Poetry Handbook’ (1996; 2/e, OUP, 2005), and with Mary Luckhurst ‘The Drama Handbook’ (OUP, 2002). He is the general editor of the Genre Fiction Sightlines and Genre Fiction Monographs series, and has written several Sightlines titles, and two books of essays on genre fiction, also available on Kindle, ‘Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction’ (2007) and ‘Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction’ (2010). Literary History & Criticism Shakespeare Royalty Fiction Fantasy Paranormal
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