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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )King Lear (Shakespeare, Pelican) List Price: $3.95 Price: $0.01 You Save: $3.94 (100%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33 EAN: 9780140714142 ISBN: 0140714146 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: September 30, 1958 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts Book Description: John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Shakespeare's most powerful play is not for sissies."King Lear" is where Shakespeare takes off the gloves. He brings us right to the edge of the abyss, then kicks us over that edge. This is the most devastating by far of the Shakespeare tragedies -- a play which leaves the reader shattered as the curtain falls. I find it hard to explain where the visceral power of this play comes from. The plot is fairly typically Shakespeare, perhaps a little more complicated than usual, mixing elements taken from legend and from the historical record. ... Read More Rating:  - "Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude..."Ok - it's Shakespeare: points awarded. But I found myself loving the word play immensely. I was scratching notes in the columns - started my own word count when I found patterns... and then (as this was read for school) went head-first into the analytical essay to be written. Oddly - the instructor now has us working on a research paper which asks, "Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?" And a NOTE: I always wait to read any prologues or introductions AFTER I've read a text. I don't want the ... Read More Rating:  - THE BBC RADIO GIELGUD AUDIOBOOK IS NOT ABRIDGED BUT FIRST FOLIO ONLY LIKE THE NAXOSThe only thing which mars this otherwise excellent Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing Renaissance Theatre Company King Lear with Sir John Gielgud (in around 1993), Dame Judith (formerly Judi) Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kenneth Brannagh, DEREK JACOBI, etc. is that following the academic fashion of that moment, it is First Folio only. It is NOT abridged as indicated on the amazon product page. It is First Folio only. Otherwise it is overwhelming and excellent and demanding of repeated listenings. ... Read More Rating: - Sir Alec Guiness's BBC radio recording of King Lear may be adequate for those familiar with this great play for our dayIf you have already carefully read the play, and seen various presentations, this ancient BBC radio recording may prove an adequate and refreshing version. There are jarring interludes of Stravinsky-inspired music which may now seem anachronistic or otherwise out of place, rather than tragically atmospheric, but you may find as well redeeming qualities within this recording. For one we do not find the monotone reedy Guiness voice familiar from his films, but a broad spectrumed and robust rendition ... Read More Rating: - Review of the Signet edition of Shakespeare's "King Lear"This paperback is a handy edition of Shakespeare's great play, useful for students on all levels. The critical essays in the back are helpful, though one or two more recent ones could have been included. 
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