Adapting King Lear for the Stage

Contents: Introduction; 'Why this is not Lear': adaptations before the 20th century; 'Other accents borrow': Bottomley, Baring, and a new approach to adaptation; 'Only we shall retain the name': Bond's Lear and Barker's Seven Lears; 'Re-vision' of the kingdom: feminist adaptations of King Lear; Conclusion: 'The promised end'?; Bibliography; Index.

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• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
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• Estudos literários: geral
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Literatura: história e crítica
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