The wordsworth classics shakespeare series presents a newly-edited sequence of william shakespeare`s works.The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

King lear has been widely acclaimed as shakespeare`s most powerful tragedy,Elemental and passionate,it encompasses the horrific and the hearth-rending.Love and hate,loyalty and treachery,cruelty and self-sacrifice:all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world`s literature.In the theatre and screen king lear continues to challenge and enthral.

This wordsworth edition of king lear provides a comprehensive,integtated text of the play.