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    King Lear

    King Lear

    FromApproaching Shakespeare

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    King Lear

    FromApproaching Shakespeare

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    Length:
    47 minutes
    Released:
    Feb 22, 2012
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.
    Released:
    Feb 22, 2012
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (32)

    Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that might be used to strengthen our critical analysis, and, above all, the enjoyable and unavoidable fact that Shakespeare's plays tend to generate our questions rather than answer them.