[audiobook] Redisplaying Museum Collections: Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums by Hannah Paddon at Arts-Photography

Description

King Lear is widely considered to be Shakespeares greatest and most challenging play. This unique volume features:bull; a scene-by-scene commentary that traces the plays on-stage life and an audiences progressive experience of performancebull; a close reading of the text that leads to a re-assessment of the tragedys achievementbull; discussion of the plays sources; and its cultural and political contextbull; accounts of major performances on stage and screen; and of notable critical assessments.Inspiring and stimulating; this essential study of King Lear in both text and performance offers a path to a fuller knowledge of Shakespeares verbal; theatrical and imaginative art.