Hamlet Versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521342926)

This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of "greatest" among his works. Recent critical theorizing has destabilized the texts and undermined the notion of "greatness" or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation to meaning.

Author: R. A. Foakes
ISBN-10: 0521342929
ISBN-13: 9780521342926
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1993
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d