King Lear, 9780192865830
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Family, love, and madness intertwine in Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece.
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    208 pages

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    1 July 2026

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Summary

“As flies to th’ wanton boys are we to th’ gods: They bite us for their sport.”

Set in the recesses of British antiquity, King Lear broods on gift-giving, gratitude, service and love; the bonds that sustain human life within families, communities and the state. Concerned with what remains and what is possible when these bonds crack, cool off or come apart, the tragedy forces repeated confrontations with abysmal cruelty, which it yokes together with instances of compassion that seem ch…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192865830
ISBN-10:0192865838
Author:William Shakespeare, Namratha Rao, John Jowett, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:1 July 2026
Weight:158g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 12mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Namratha Rao is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on the intersections between early modern poetics and philosophy in works by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Spenser Studies, Companionable Thinking: Spenser With… and is completing her first monograph on Spenser and Milton.

John Jowett is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is the General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare with particular responsibility for the original-spelling Critical Referenceedition. He is General Editor for the ongoing Arden Early Modern Drama, a parallel series to the Arden Shakespeare that publishes non-Shakespearian drama of the early modern period.

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