King Lear
By: John Russell Brown
Series: The Shakespeare handbooks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781403986887; 9781403986894
Description: "An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Series IntroductionPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionTexts and Early PerformancesTheatre CommentarySources and Cultural Contexts Key Performances and ProductionsScreen VersionsCritical AssessmentsFurther ReadingIndex.