The Lear World: A study of King Lear in its dramatic context

by John Reibetanz

The dramatic traditions and conventions available to Shakespeare at the time he wrote King Lear were so rich and varied as to constitute an extremely resonant and complex vocabulary, one that Shakespeare fully utilized to shape his audience's response and to create the unique world of this play.

Professor Reibetanz argues that many of the qualities that set Lear apart from Shakespeare's other tragedies are those it shares with Jacobean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802063942
• ISBN13: 9780802063946
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher