Poor Tom: Living King Lear by Simon Palfrey

Poor Tom: Living King Lear

Simon Palfrey

272 pages hardcover 2014

2 editions

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King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king--Edgar--has often seemed little more than a blank, igno...

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