Meddling with masterpieces: the on-going adaptation of King Lear
The temptation to meddle with Shakespeare has proven irresistible to playwrights since the Restoration and has inspired some of the most reviled and most respected works of theatre. Nahum Tate’s tragic-comic King Lear (1681) was described as an execrable piece of dementation, but played on London st...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1343 |