King Lear

Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.
Date Published: 22 February 2012
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Contributors: Emma Smith
In Collection(s): William Shakespeare, Questioning Genre
Keywords: shakespeare, criticism, Key Stage 5, lesson, Teaching, #greatwriters, theatre, play, language, english, literature
Cite: King Lear by William Shakespeare at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/king-lear. Published on 22 February 2012. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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