Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale

by Jonathan Croall

Book Overview

King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world.

Performing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474223850
• ISBN13: 9781474223850
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"