Authors: William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes
ISBN-13: 9781903436592, ISBN-10: 1903436591
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: 3rd Edition
R. A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also taught or held fellowships at Yale, Birmingham, Durham, Kent, Toronto, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Australian National University, Canberra. He has written extensively on King Lear in his book, Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art.
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