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One of the most memorable Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. The author asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility.

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"Reading Poor Tom has the effect of watching a familiar landscape expand and morph in myriad, telling ways, opening up ever deeper reserves of strangeness in the much-discussed and much-estranged play of King Lear. This is a very rare sort of work." (Kenneth Gross, author of Shylock Is Shakespeare and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life)"

Poor Tom

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    A Hardback by Simon Palfrey

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 10 September 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226150642
      978-0226150642
      ISBN-10 022615064X
      Also in:
      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of the most memorable Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. The author asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility.

      Trade Review
      "Reading Poor Tom has the effect of watching a familiar landscape expand and morph in myriad, telling ways, opening up ever deeper reserves of strangeness in the much-discussed and much-estranged play of King Lear. This is a very rare sort of work." (Kenneth Gross, author of Shylock Is Shakespeare and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life)"

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