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The tragedy of King Lear with related readings

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1998192 pagesITP International Thomson Pub.

Synopsis

This collection offers a comprehensive exploration of William Shakespeare's King Lear, featuring the original play alongside a diverse array of related readings. It includes critical essays, poems, and short stories from renowned authors such as John Keats, Margaret Atwood, and Isaac Asimov. The volume provides multiple perspectives on the enduring themes and characters of this classic tragedy, inviting readers to delve deeper into its complexities.

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Authors

Dom Saliani is an editor known for his work on classic literature, including "Midsummer Night's Dream With Related Readings" and "The Tragedy of King Lear with Related Readings." He has also contributed to poetry collections such as "Poetry Alive Perspectives 1991/Book 2."

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing. ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for...

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of...

John Keats was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. Along with Byron and Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the movement, despite publishing his work over only a four year period. During his short life, his work was not well received by critics, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen was significant. The poetry of Keats was characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes which remain among the mo...

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Characters

King LearProtagonist
Miss GonerilAntagonist
CordeliaSupporting
The FoolSupporting

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Edition

Book cover of The tragedy of King Lear with related readings.