EPISODE · Oct 31, 2017 · 50 MIN
A Time for Lear: The Rise in Popularity of Shakespeare's King Lear
from From the Lighthouse · host MQ English
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays, but also one of his bleakest. This week, Stephanie and Michelle are joined by Shakespearean scholar and Renaissance man, Professor Tony Cousins to discuss Lear, Cordelia, lame eighteenth-century reworkings of the play, and why King Lear became the play de jour after WWII.
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