The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM CD-ROM: Text and Performance Archive

Críticas

'... the amount of material that has been gathered together in so compact a form is truly remarkable, and it is clear that a great deal of thought has gone into devising ways of making it easily accessible.' Shakespeare Yearbook

' ... the editors of this CD-ROM have succeeded in combining the texts and stage performances of King Lear from 1605 to 1998 in an extremely clear manner due to the outstanding concept and presentation.' Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen

Biografía del autor

Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.

Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain s Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.

Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare s works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are performed more often than any other playwright s, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.