Shakespeare's Philosopher King: Reading the Tragedy of King Lear

by Guy Story Brown (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $52.96

  Dealing with Shakespeare's darkest play, The Tragedy of King Lear , this title precedes Cymbeline, King of Britain, as the earliest of Shakespeare's English history plays in the sense that it represents a primordial age when the 'sceptered isle' of 'England' was hardly yet even clearly differentiated from 'Britain'.