Shakespeare's King Lear: Place and the Unplaceable

Speakers: Namratha Rao and James Williams

King Lear has long been admired as Shakespeare’s greatest work, while also baffling readers by how it remains, in many ways, stubbornly unplaceable.

Celebrating the release of the Oxford World’s Classics King Lear with a new Critical Introduction by Namratha Rao, we explore the brilliance and the problem of this tragedy. Namratha and James Williams of the University of York examine character and dramatic form, Lear’s Britain and Shakespeare’s England, and the play’s astonishing afterlives.

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