05653cam a2201549 4500 548482571 TxAuBib 20220209120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780486110240 0486110249 B00A73J6J6 Amazon 23310483-71f9-4ccc-93ae-f2365ec4d48d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1347685 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear [Libby]. Dover Publications, 2012. Macbeth. disinherits. pollock. illegitimate son. Albany. britain. Kent. human nature. Cornwall. Hamlet. England. panels. dench. Othello. Edgar. brochure. Cordelia. Julius Caesar. fool. Human Behavior. Arden. Shakespearean tragedy. Gloucester. modern english. Naxos. flattery. amoral. critical essays. derek jacobi. folger library. quarto. shakespearean language. shakespeares. books on human natures. books on othellos. books on shakespeares. Sir John. Regan. books on son edmunds. books on quartos. books on shakespearean languages. books on shakespearean tragedies. books on sir johns. books on sixth ages. books on naxos. books on modern languages. books on human behaviors. books on julius caesar. books on lears. books on folger libraries. books on gielgud. books on glosters. books on gloucester. books on critical essays. books on derek jacobi. books on brochures. alack. banishes. sixth age. son edmund. paul scofield. modern language. james shapiro. lears. fellow goodreaders. flatterers. gielgud. gloster. books on pollock. ingratitude. books on character relationships. books on dark tragedies. books on evil daughters. books on foakes. books on intensive studies. books on king guys. books on lear stories. books on play kings. branagh. character relationships. conflated. curtain falls. dame judith. dark tragedy. dramatic colors. eldest daughters. evil daughters. fairly typically. foakes. gr 5-9. intensive study. judiciously placed. king guy. lear story. monstrously evil. pay dearly. play king. playing king. rhyming introduction. serpent's tooth. thankless child. upbeat view. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1232kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Drama. Fiction. HTML:First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth. The plot concerns a monarch betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Greed, treachery, and cruelty are rife and the denouement of the play is both brutal and heartbreaking. In fact, so troubling is its vision of man's life that, until the mid-19th century, the play was performed most often with a non-Shakespearean happy ending, with Lear back on his throne and Cordelia, the daughter nearest his heart, happily married to the noble Edgar. But there is a dark magnificence to Shakespeare's original vision of the Lear story, and the play is performed today essentially as he wrote it, uncompromised by later "improvements." King Lear is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes. . Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-02-09 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/king-lear-233104?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/king-lear-233104?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/king-lear-233104?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BMLLS