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King Lear: New Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism) by Jeffrey Kahan is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is King Lear: New Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism) about?
Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jeffrey Kahan
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781135973650
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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