King Lear (The Sourcebooks Shakespeare)
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King Lear (The Sourcebooks Shakespeare) Details
From the Back Cover The Sourcebooks ShakespeareMore than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including over 20 classic scenes and excerpts from famous performances past and present--Photographs from great performances--CD audio indexed by line--Glossary and production notes--Newly edited text of the playThe Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings King Lear to life in a revolutionary new book and audio CD formatIn the Book: Photographs from notable productions including:--James Earl Jones as Lear, Paul Sorvino as Gloucester, and Rene Auberjonois as Edgar from 1973 at the Public Theater in New York City--The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999 (directed by Yukio Ninagawa) and 2007 (directed by Trevor Nunn)--Set designs from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1959) and Charles Kean’s production (1858)Hear 21 great scenes on audio CD: Memorable performances by Paul Scofield, Donald Wolfit, and Laurence Olivier all as Lear, Kenneth Branagh and John Hurt as The Fool, and Simon Russell Beale and Toby Stephens as EdmundNarrated by Sir Derek Jacobi Read more About the Author Text Editor: Douglas Brooks (Texas A&M)David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities at the University of Chicago. A renowned text scholar, he has edited several Shakespeare editions including the Bantam Shakespeare in individual paperback volumes, The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Troilus and Cressida. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Medieval Drama. Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame. One of the central figures in performance-oriented Shakespeare criticism, he has also edited many Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Oxford Shakespeare series. Read more
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