King Lear

Synopsis

The wordsworth classics shakespeare series presents a newly-edited sequence of william shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King lear has been widely acclaimed as shakespeare's most powerful tragedy, elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the hearth-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.