This book is part of a book series called New Casebooks .
This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .
There are 201 pages in this book. This book was published 1992 by Palgrave Macmillan .
Kiernan Ryan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is an established reviewer for The Guardian, The Independent and The Times Higher Education Supplement .
This book has the following chapters: Introduction: K. Ryan - Essays by: Arnold Kettle - Howard Felperin - Kathleen McLuskie - Leonard Tennenhouse - Kiernan Ryan - Terry Eagleton - Coppelia Kahn - Leah Marcus - Annabel Patterson - Jonathan Goldberg - Stephen Greenblatt
This book contains the following story:
King Lear
Foolish and bad-tempered, King Lear divides the kingdom between his two wicked daughters, disowns his honest youngest daughter and banishes his friends. As the kingdom falls apart and Lear';s humiliation turns him mad, will he finally realise what he has done?