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King Lear (Signet Classics)

	List Price: $4.95 Our Price: $4.95 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher: Signet Classics Written By: William Shakespeare
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780451526939 ISBN: 0451526937 Label: Signet Classics Manufacturer: Signet Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 1998-06-01 Publisher: Signet Classics Studio: Signet Classics
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Editorial Review: Newly revised, this edition of "King Lear" features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life and world; an editor's introduction; a note on the sources; dramatic criticism from the past and present; a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors and productions; and more.
Reader Reviews for King Lear (Signet Classics): Customer Rating: Summary: King Lear Easy Version Comment: This is a good book if you need to have a quick review and understanding of King Lear. If you are hard up of time (exams due soon or deadline for assignment..) and you haven't even got to reading the actual shakespearean verson, then I suggest you read the Easy version for a quick understanding of the play and it might just help you to get through the assignment or the exams. For real desperate students, this is a great help. But if you can, don't just read the easy version as you will miss out the beauty of Shakespeare use of language..... Customer Rating: Summary: King Lear Comment: The book I ordered was for a World Lit class. I was afraid it wouldn't make it to me in time, but I received it a considerable amount of time before it was due. The condition of it was better than expected and it was a good read. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Finest Plays Ever Written Comment: I read King Lear after a long gap since my last reading of Shakespeare--in college. It was recommended by a former professor, David Allen White, as his favorite of Shakespeare's plays. I was not disappointed and found the play to be very compelling. For a novice, the play was a quick read, probably because the action and the characters were so interesting. This is one I'll probably have to read again in order to truly grasp its meaning and beauty. Since most high school and college students don't go beyond Macbeth, Hamlet, or Romeo and Juliet, I would highly recommend King Lear as a continuation of that introduction to Shakespeare. Customer Rating: Summary: His greatest triumph! Comment: King Lear is the most devastating, and most powerful, piece in the cannon of Shakespeare. The characters in this play span the spectrum of human behavior and yet Shakespeare creates in each of them a reality that is hard to reject, even when their actions are most disturbing. Despite the nihilism of the piece I never feel that Shakespeare is negating human existence, but rather, encouraging his audience to embrace the human experience in all its splendor and squalor. He has the blinded (and formerly suicidal) Gloucester say "You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; let not my worser spirit tempt me again to die before you please." Gloucester has realized there are forces larger then us that "shape our ends" and that being fully human means to absorb the good and the bad. In the characters of Edgar and Cordelia Shakespeare creates the stereotypical "good child." However, he also endows both creations with an otherworldly kindness towards their fathers that speaks to our better natures. The way that both children nurse their disturbed fathers back to health is a lesson in humility and forgiveness. The villains in this text are the classical villains, from which all other villains flow, and the many subplots combine in a delicious web of deceit and destruction that ensnares in its web the very spiders that spun it. However, the ultimate beauty in King Lear is in the power of redemption. When Lear begs the forgiveness of the daughter he has truly wronged, she responds with "No cause." We have all hurt someone we love, and who among us would not like to be absolved by those powerful words, "No cause"? Lear's redemption and forgiveness is our own. Customer Rating: Summary: A Classroom Success Story Comment: The Cambridge School Shakespeare series offers great classroom activities for teachers. They are useful to both theatre and English classes, as they really help students to understand and enjoy the material. King Lear is always my favorite, but the entire series is equally useful.

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