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 ...

Holger Syme has taken literary criticism to a new level. Over three weeks, the associate professor of English at the University of Toronto live-tweeted his appalled criticism -- running to more than ...

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 ...

The first version of King Lear was published in 1608 as a quarto, or small book, called True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.

“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 ...