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1) King Lear
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King Lear descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.
2) Playhouse
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, life for the core members of the company seems to be falling into disarray. Their trusted director has just retired, and theater manager Thaddeus Deerforth—staring down forty and sensing a rift growing slowly between himself and his wife, Gina—dreads the arrival of an imperious, inscrutable visiting director. Claudette, struggling to make ends meet as an actor and destabilized by family...
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In King Lear, one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers,...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.
5) Fool
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
7) King Lear
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, and they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
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