King Lear

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998.

Danson, Lawrence, ed. On King Lear. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Evans, G. Blakemore, et al., eds. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Shakespeare (based on the Oxford edition). New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Ioppolo, Grace. William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Mack, Maynard, Jr. King Lear in Our Time. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Rosenberg, Marvin. The Masks of King Lear. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Ed. R.A. Foakes. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, U.K.: Arden Shakespeare/Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1997.

Smith, Emma. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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