King Lear (Arden Shakespeare)
Author(s): William Shakespeare
Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom. This version of the text was edited and curated specially for the production.
Two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends.
Tender, brutal, moving and epic,King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : The Arden Shakespeare
- : 0.471736
- : 01 May 1997
- : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : facsimiles, portraits
- : Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare plays, texts; English literature: literary criticism
- : 455
- : 822.3/3
- : English
- : 3rd Revised edition
- : Paperback
- : William Shakespeare