Lear's Other Shadow

Auteur

THOMAS G. OLSEN is professor emeritus at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where he taught courses in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and book history. He is editor of The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (Arizona State/RETS, 2004) and Tales for Shakespeare: Stories That Inspired the Plays (Cambridge Scholars, 2019). His articles and reviews have appeared in SEL, Prose Studies, The Yale Library Gazette, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Shakespeare Yearbook, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Reformation, Annali d'Italianistica, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and elsewhere.

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Lear's Other Shadow proposes a cultural history of King Leir/Lear's queen, beginning with pre-Shakespearean versions of the archetypal tale, through Shakespeare's dramatic retelling, and in dozens of lively post-Shakespearean adaptations on stage, page, and screen that in one way or another restore the wife and queen that Shakespeare all but excised from his version of the ancient story.