This book is part of a book series called New Casebooks .
This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .
There are 189 pages in this book. This book was published 1992 by Macmillan Education UK .
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 K. - athleen 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?