Este autor profundiza en las complejidades de la literatura shakesperiana con una pasión por la investigación literaria. Su trabajo explora el fascinante mundo de la erudición shakesperiana y los estudios textuales, ofreciendo a los lectores una perspectiva única para ver obras fundamentales y sus orígenes. Como autoridad líder en el drama del Renacimiento inglés, aporta una profunda profundidad de conocimiento a sus conferencias y escritos.
El Rey Lear, de William Shakespeare, es una tragedia clásica que aborda la traición, la locura y el poder a través de diálogos poéticos y personajes complejos. Esta obra es esencial para comprender la maestría de Shakespeare y su impacto en la literatura, recomendada para quienes aprecian la dramaturgia clásica y temas universales.
An international team of scholars offers: • modernised, easily accessible texts • ample but unobtrusive academic guidance • attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history • informative illustrations, including reconstructions of early performances Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays special attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation. The most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick. In recent times the play's matched plots of two pairs of lovers have been of interest to feminist critics. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language.
The plays are presented as in the First Folio of 1623, with the addition of "Pericles" and variations which are agreed by the best Shakespearean critics. For the most part it is Delius's text that is followed.