Shakespeare Survey
Subtitle: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production (Shakespeare Survey)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521815871
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Since the 1960s, when it usurped the throne securely occupied till then by Hamlet, King Lear has reigned supreme as Shakespeare's masterpiece and the keystone of the canon.