Hamlet Versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art

This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of greatest among his works. Recent critical theorizing has destabilized the texts and undermined the notion of greatness or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation to meaning.

Author: R. A. Foakes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/10/2004
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.18w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521607056

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