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King Lear / edited by Kenneth Muir.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Shakespeare, William, Works ; | Arden ShakespearePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1959.Edition: [8th ed., rev., reprinted with further corrections]Description: lxiv, 258 pages ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR2819.A2 M8 1959
Summary: Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Their share is to be determined by their love for him. Two daughters speak with grandiose expressions of love while the third daughter finds nothing to say. The courts disinherit the third daughter, Cordelia. Much treachery, murder, and deceit ensued and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death.
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Non Fiction 822.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00132852

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Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Their share is to be determined by their love for him. Two daughters speak with grandiose expressions of love while the third daughter finds nothing to say. The courts disinherit the third daughter, Cordelia. Much treachery, murder, and deceit ensued and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death.

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