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King Lear
Jan 12, 2026 12:31 AM

Author:William Shakespeare,Kiernan Ryan,George Hunter

King Lear

'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young daughter who loves him and misplaces his trust in her malevolent sisters. In return they strip him of his power and condemn him to a wretched wasteland of horror and insanity. Set in a pitiless universe, King Lear is a towering, elemental masterpiece of fierce poetry and vast imaginative scope.

Used and Recommended by the National Theatre

General Editor Stanley Wells

Edited by George Hunter

Introduction by Kiernan Ryan

Reviews

Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny, smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness is finer than they ever thought . . .

'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'

—— from the publisher's description

Classic Keyes. Constantly surprising, gloriously entertaining, and has a dark underbite that makes it irresistible

—— The Pool

Nails the joy and pain of the working world . . . a brilliantly written and fabulously well-observed romantic comedy

—— Independent

Should come with a health warning. It's totally addictive . . . a real page turner

—— Sunday Express

Chatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is

—— Independent

Our funniest living novelist

—— Daily Telegraph

Reaches a transcendental realm of its own. I couldn't even read it at times, because I was crying and choking with laughter

—— Daily Express

Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter

—— Time Out
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