Shakespeare's King Lear: Place and the Unplaceable Namratha Rao and Jane Raisch
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King Lear has long been admired as Shakespeare’s greatest work, while also baffling readers by how it remains, in many ways, stubbornly unplaceable.
Celebrating the release of the Oxford World’s Classics King Lear with a new Critical Introduction by Namratha Rao, we explore the brilliance and the problem of this tragedy. Namratha and Jane Raisch of the University of York examine character and dramatic form, Lear’s Britain and Shakespeare’s England, and the play’s astonishing afterlives.
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You can buy copies of many of our speakers’ books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too.
About the speakers
Dr Namratha Rao is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of York. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, classical reception, and the intersections between literature and philosophy, with a special emphasis on Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton. Namratha is the author of the Critical Introduction for the New Oxford Shakespeare King Lear.
Dr Jane Raisch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Jane is a specialist in the reception of Greek and the interconnected histories of fiction and scholarship.
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