A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Ed. Grace Ioppolo.

• Werner Brönimann

While anthologies strive for self-sufficiency, they invariably also invite further reading. Accordingly, Grace Ioppolo’s Sourcebook is in fact a Workbook which demands more extensive research and more intensive study than it can offer between its covers. Brevity that stimulates further readerly engagement characterises all of the Lear Sourcebook’s three parts, i.e. its collection of source materials (‘Contexts’), its assembly of critical responses and accounts of stage representations (‘Interpretations’), and its selection of scenes and constellations from Shakespeare’s King Lear (‘Key Passages’).

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