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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
      Published 25 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9780192846723
      978-0192846723
      ISBN-10 0192846728
      Also in:
      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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