King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521466970 ISBN 13: 9780521466974

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, King Lear has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of King Lear aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover:

As well as the complete scripts (established by scholars working on the New Cambridge Shakespeare), the student will find a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words, and a wide range of classroom-tested activities to help turn the script into drama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521466970
• ISBN 13: 9780521466974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Morris Jonathan, Bain Elspeth, Smith Rob