Shakespeare: King Lear

by Frank Kermode (Editor)

This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques. Contributors include A.C.Bradley, A.Wilson Knight, Enid Welsford, George Orwell, Robert B.Heilman, Barbara Everett, John Holloway, W.R.Elton, Stanley Cavell and Stephen Greenblatt.

Genres: Literary Criticism

298 pages, Paperback

Published February 27, 1992

About the author

Sir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 (revised 2003).