Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for ...
This edition first published in 1966.
Library only has v.A, v.B, v.C.
Introduction to the Play: In the Theater of the Mind
Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost totally contradictory interpretations. An important theme is the play's examination of society and the ties of service and family love.
The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times
These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers.
World Masterpieces
Subject: A selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages
... dunces like those of Milton's devils , thick as the leaves that strew bad ... dunce moves always closer to and then flows into the metaphor of the Day of the Lord ... anonymous , expressive of blind inertia - bees in swarm , or locusts ...