![]() ![]() In Shapiro’s hands there is never anything dry about this kind of textual analysis.Īnd the writing is even more potent when it links the language and ideas of the play to what is happening in and around the rule of King James and the complex politics of dividing royal kingdoms. It is fascinating to see King Lear not just as the phenomenal work of genius it is but also as an immense reworking of what apparently was a relatively ordinary play by a then unknown writer. In the first folio of Shakespeare’s collected works, Lear’s name in the script twice appears under the spelling, Leir, as the bard was working from the original. Shapiro says that the names of the title character and the three daughters were kept the same but given new spellings.įor instance, Cordella became Cordelia. ![]()
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