King Lear: Language and Writing by Jean E Howard

King Lear: Language and Writing by Jean E Howard

A study aid, which explores and dissects the play's themes, issues, motifs and

How I wish I could take a class with Jean Howard! She is the perfect guide to the complexities and demands of King LearThroughout, this book is wise and inviting, subtle and engaging, provocative and helpful. This is a perfect book for students – but not only for students: everyone will learn from and be made to think by reading it, however well we suppose ourselves to know this astonishing play.

* Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA *

Jean E. Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, USA. Author of Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation (with Phyllis Rackin, 1994) and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy (2001), she has edited six collections of essays, including the four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works (2003). General Editor of the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare, Howard is Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Library Fellowships. At Syracuse University she received the Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and at Columbia University the University Graduate Mentoring Award.

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ISBN 13	9781408182277
ISBN 10	1408182270
Title	King Lear: Language and Writing
Author	Jean E Howard
Series	Arden Student Skills: Language And Writing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2022-02-24
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.