King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) - Softcover

William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel; A.R. Baunmuller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143128558 ISBN 13: 9780143128557

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the twentieth-century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.

About this title

Review:

"Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks."
--Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

"I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students."
--Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

About the Author:

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England and The Illusion of Power.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143128558
• ISBN 13: 9780143128557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller