King Lear

Jonathan Munby''s explosive revival of Shakespeare''s epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom.In this version the play has been cut back to its essentials to create a shorter play for a modern audience. Munby has also created a version to suit the intimacy and immediacy of the Minerva Theatre (Chichester), whilst harnessing what he describes as the "catapulting ferocity" of the play.Two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends.Tender, brutal, moving and epic, Kin ear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written.>

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Munby, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Jonathan Munby (Editor)
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781786825988
• ISBN: 978-1-78682-598-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Oberon Classics; Oberon Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies