Browsing by Subject "King Lear (Shakespeare, William)"
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Journeys of Shakespearience: Fathers and Daughters in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1993 Productions of The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and The Tempest
Three of the plays in the RSC's 1993 Stratford-upon-Avon season fortuitously fit the paradigm of a journey by exploring the journey towards maturation of fathers and daughters. These three plays are The Merchant of Venice ... -
Salvation, Perdition, and Redemption: The Genre of King Lear and His Three Daughters (thesis)
In changing the ending of the play, then, Shakespeare was rewriting history in a bold fashion. This is not merely a question of characterization, like Richard III, or condensation for dramatic purposes, like Macbeth, but ...