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King Lear

Approaching Shakespeare by Oxford University

Feb 22, 201247:25Education

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.

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