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A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.

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Prologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig

King Lear Shakespeares Dark Consolations My

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 25/08/2022
      ISBN13: 9780192846723, 978-0192846723
      ISBN10: 0192846728
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.

      Table of Contents
      Prologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig

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