Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play..
In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral.
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world\'s literature.
Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending.
King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare\'s most powerful tragedy.
The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare\'s works.
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex
