King Lear

Approaching Shakespeare

English - February 22, 2012 17:43 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 294 ratings
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Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.