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.