King Lear

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'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!'

An ageing king rejects the young daughter who loves him and misplaces his trust in her malevolent sisters, who strip him of his power and condemn him to a wretched wasteland of horror and insanity. Set in a pitiless universe, Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy, written at the height of his powers, is a towering masterpiece of fierce poetry and vast imaginative scope.

'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world.' Percy Bysshe Shelley

General Introduction by Stanley Wells
Edited by George Hunter
Introduction by Kiernan Ryan