num_pages: 192
description: From his now-canonical book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom offers an impassioned meditation on "the most emotionally demanding of Shakespeare's plays"-- his complex and harrowing tragedy of familial love featuring the most sublimely anguished, and insanely eloquent, of all of Shakespeare's protagonists. Includes Harold Bloom's definitive text of the play
language: English
title: Shakespeare's King Lear
titlecomplete: Shakespeare's King Lear
characters: Regan, Duke of Cornwall, Cordelia, Fool, Duke of Albany, Leir of Britain, Earl of Kent, Goneril, Edmund, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Read For School, Tragedy, School, Literature, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 212601
publisher: Riverhead Trade