The One King Lear

The One King Lear
ISBN-10
0674970330
ISBN-13
9780674970335
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2016-04-04
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Sir Brian Vickers

Description

In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed.

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