King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198319770 ISBN 13: 9780198319771

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The latest addition to this series. It is fully annotated, with the notes facing the text, and contains a wide range of questions for students, as well as the background to Shakespeare's England.

About this title

Book Description:

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

From the Publisher:

A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings--as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0198319770
• ISBN 13: 9780198319771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Gill Roma