Poor Tom: Living King Lear by Simon Palfrey

Poor Tom: Living King Lear

Simon Palfrey

280 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction challenging sad medium-paced
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King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king—Edgar—has often seemed little more than a blank, ignore...

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