King Lear (eBook)
144 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-11024-0 (ISBN)
First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth.The plot concerns a monarch betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Greed, treachery, and cruelty are rife and the denouement of the play is both brutal and heartbreaking. In fact, so troubling is its vision of man's life that, until the mid-19th century, the play was performed most often with a non-Shakespearean happy ending, with Lear back on his throne and Cordelia, the daughter nearest his heart, happily married to the noble Edgar. But there is a dark magnificence to Shakespeare's original vision of the Lear story, and the play is performed today essentially as he wrote it, uncompromised by later "e;improvements."e; King Lear is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition, complete with explanatory footnotes.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.3.2012 |
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Reihe/Serie | Dover Thrift Editions | Dover Thrift Editions: Plays |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 130 mm |
Gewicht | 113 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Schlagworte | alack • Albany • Amoral • Arden • banishes • books on brochures • books on character relationships • books on critical essays • books on dark tragedies • books on derek jacobi • books on evil daughters • books on foakes • books on folger libraries • books on gielgud • books on glosters • books on gloucester • books on human behaviors • books on human natures • books on intensive studies • books on julius caesar • books on king guys • books on lears • books on lear stories • books on modern languages • books on naxos • books on othellos • books on play kings • books on pollock • books on quartos • books on shakespearean languages • books on shakespearean tragedies • books on shakespeares • books on sir johns • books on sixth ages • books on son edmunds • Branagh • Britain • Brochure • character relationships • conflated • Cordelia • Cornwall • Critical Essays • curtain falls • dame judith • dark tragedy • dench • derek jacobi • disinherits • dramatic colors • Edgar • eldest daughters • England • evil daughters • fairly typically • fellow goodreaders • flatterers • flattery • foakes • folger library • Fool • gielgud • Gloster • Gloucester • gr 5-9 • Hamlet • human behavior • Human nature • illegitimate son • ingratitude • intensive study • james shapiro • judiciously placed • Julius Caesar • Kent • king guy • lears • lear story • Macbeth • Modern English • modern language • monstrously evil • Naxos • Othello • Panels • paul scofield • pay dearly • playing king • play king • Pollock • Quarto • regan • rhyming introduction • serpent's tooth • shakespearean language • shakespearean tragedy • shakespeares • Sir John • sixth age • son edmund • thankless child • upbeat view |
ISBN-10 | 0-486-11024-9 / 0486110249 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-486-11024-0 / 9780486110240 |
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