A towering, elemental masterpiece of fierce poetry and vast imaginative scope, King Lear unfolds in a pitiless universe where an ageing king’s catastrophic misjudgement sets everything in motion. Rejecting the daughter who truly loves him and placing his trust instead in her malevolent sisters, he finds himself swiftly stripped of his power and cast into a wretched wasteland of horror and insanity. Shakespeare’s bleak and brutal tragedy remains as overwhelming in its emotional force as anything in world drama. ‘The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world’ Percy Bysshe Shelley. Used and Recommended by the National Theatre. General Editor Stanley Wells Edited by George Hunter Introduction by Kiernan Ryan
ISBN 13: 9780141396460
Author: William Shakespeare
