Tragedy of King Lear

List of contents

Introduction; Textual Analysis; Preface by Brian Gibbons; Textual Analysis, Part 1; A Note on the Text; List of Characters; The Play; Textual Analysis, Part 2; Appendix: Passages Unique to the First Quarto; Reading List.

About the author

Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor Emerita of the University of Delaware, has a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She has taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, Paris III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle, and Tsuda College, Tokyo. She edited The Two Noble Kinsmen for the Arden Shakespeare and Pericles for the 3rd edition of the Norton Complete Works, and has published monographs on Milton, English Civil War literature, the theatrical history of Twelfth Night and Othello, and The Life of William Shakespeare, as well as editing two essay collections on Robin Hood.

Summary

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with a particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Jay Halio (Editor), Lois Potter (Introduction), Potter Lois (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781107195868
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19586-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Shakespeare; King Lear