King Lear
Authors: William Shakespeare Publisher: Wordsworth Edition: 1 Publish Year: 1997 ISBN: 9781853260957 King Lear by William Shakespeare. Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.