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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Angela Lashbrook LEARWIFE By J. R. Thorp Perhaps you know the story of “King Lear.” The ...
Books expert Devon Eastland appraised a 1655 Shakespeare 3rd quarto edition of *King Lear* during ROADSHOW’s 2022 stop in Shelburne. Learn about the book’s journey to the auction block ...
Learn about King Lear - These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text ...
“Shagging,” “boinking,” “boffing,” and “fuckery” may not be words one conjures up when thinking about Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, but they have their places in comic novelist Christopher Moore’s ...
Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ By Lynn Steger ...
EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER by Vivien Noakes. 359 pages. Houghton Miffllin. $8.95. Among the small wonders of the great age of Queen Victoria is the fact that the Queen herself once had a ...