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"King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 2015The Arden Shakespeare · 264 pages · 9781474223867
- Other · English · 2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781474223881
- Other · English · 2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 250 pages · 9781474223850
- Other · English · 2015Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781474223874
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