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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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King Lear is an episode from Approaching Shakespeare by Oxford University. Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with th...

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Published Feb 22, 2012, 47:25 long, audio available.

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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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Published Feb 22, 2012 and 47:25 long