King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.

As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading King Lear leads Frank to both an encounter with his own old age and a source of consolation-companionship--in his future. This book does not try to minimize vulnerabilities, but it shows what is fully human, and thus shared, in suffering. The book introduces readers to King Lear, and it invites those who know the play to a new consideration for its ability to affect people's lives.

Author: Arthur W. Frank
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/25/2022
Series: My Reading
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.69w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780192846723