{"product_id":"poor-tom-9780226150642","title":"Poor Tom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399956472151,"sku":"9780226150642","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poor-tom-9780226150642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}