The Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters
The Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Their share is to be determined by their love for him. Two daughters speak with grandiose expressions of love while the third daughter finds nothing to say. The courts disinherit the third daughter, Cordelia. Much treachery, murder, and deceit ensued and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic
Shakespeare's Stage Traffic

Author: Janet Clare

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1107040035

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Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

Shakespeare's Songbook
Shakespeare's Songbook

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780393058895

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Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.