Download or read book William Shakespeare s King Lear A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink

Download or read book Dunbar written by Edward St. Aubyn and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare’s most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times – an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

Download or read book The History of King Leir written by David Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an easy-to-read retelling of THE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, a play by an anonymous author that was a source for William Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your translation, publish or self-publish it, and keep all the royalties for yourself. (Do give me credit, of course, for the original retelling.) I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the state of Texas (and all other states) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to all teachers to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. Teachers need not actually teach my retellings. Teachers are welcome to give students copies of my eBooks as background material. For example, if they are teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, teachers are welcome to give students copies of my Virgil's Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose and tell students, "Here's another ancient epic you may want to read in your spare time."

Download or read book Learwife written by J.R. Thorp and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 'Seductive . . . Gorgeous' The Times 'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women' i Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend? And what will become of her now? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which her destiny rests.

Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of King Lear features a new introductory section by Jay L. Halio.

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-09-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear (1606) is perhaps William Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. As the story opens, Lear decides to divide his empire and property among his three daughters on the basis of their declarations of love for him. Goneril and Regan flatter him to achieve the largest shares, but Cordelia refuses to do so and is thus disowned by the King. Lear's vanity and foolishness bring him destruction and tragedy.

Download or read book The Tragedy of King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King Lear written by Jennifer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on William Shakespeare's K̀ing Lear'. Retold in narrative form in modern language and reinterpreted for today's world. Suitable for adult literacy and learners of English-as-a-second-language.

Download or read book William Shakespeare s The Merry Wives of Windsor A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an easy-to-read version of William Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Download or read book The History of King Leir A Retelling written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an easy-to-read retelling of THE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, a play that was a source for William Shakespeare's KING LEAR.

Download or read book The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare King Lear All s well that ends well written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Shakespeare s Macbeth A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Shakespeare s King John A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's "King John." People who read this version first will find the original much easier to read.

Download or read book William Shakespeare s Hamlet A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a retelling of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in modern English. If people read this version first, they will understand Shakespeare's original version much better.