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245 10 a| Lear's other shadow :b| a cultural history of Queen Lear /c| Thomas G. Olsen.;

246 30 a| Cultural history of Queen Lear;

264 1 a| Newark :b| University of Delaware Press,c| [2025];

300 a| xii, 245 pages :b| illustrations (some color) ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly 1000-year life of this archetypal tale. What appears to be a deliberate strategy of suppression, even erasure in Shakespeare's King Lear later inspired dozens of stage, page, and cinematic remakes and adaptations in which this figure is revived or remembered, often pointedly so. From Jacob Gordin's Yiddish-language Miriele Efros (1898), through edgy stage remakes such as Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife (1915) and the Women's Theatre Group's Lear's Daughters (1987), to novelized retellings from Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) to Preti Taneja's We That Are Young (2018) and J.R. Thorp's Learwife (2021), and even the television series Empire (2015-2020) and Succession (2018-2023), Queen Lear regularly emerges from her shadowy origins to challenge how we understand the ancient King Leir/King Lear story. These and many other examples reveal fascinating patterns of adaptation and reinterpretation that Lear's Other Shadow identifies and analyzes for the first time, showing how and why Queen Lear is at the center of this ancient story, whether she is heard from or not"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Lear's other shadow : a cultural history of Queen Lear / Thomas G. Olsen.

Author/creator	Olsen, Thomas G. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2025]
Description	xii, 245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subjects	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters. Cordelia (Legendary character) Women in literature. Women on television.

Portion of title	Cultural history of Queen Lear
Abstract	"Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly 1000-year life of this archetypal tale. What appears to be a deliberate strategy of suppression, even erasure in Shakespeare's King Lear later inspired dozens of stage, page, and cinematic remakes and adaptations in which this figure is revived or remembered, often pointedly so. From Jacob Gordin's Yiddish-language Miriele Efros (1898), through edgy stage remakes such as Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife (1915) and the Women's Theatre Group's Lear's Daughters (1987), to novelized retellings from Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) to Preti Taneja's We That Are Young (2018) and J.R. Thorp's Learwife (2021), and even the television series Empire (2015-2020) and Succession (2018-2023), Queen Lear regularly emerges from her shadowy origins to challenge how we understand the ancient King Leir/King Lear story. These and many other examples reveal fascinating patterns of adaptation and reinterpretation that Lear's Other Shadow identifies and analyzes for the first time, showing how and why Queen Lear is at the center of this ancient story, whether she is heard from or not"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Literary criticism.
Genre/form	Television criticism and reviews.
Genre/form	Critiques littéraires.
Genre/form	Critiques d'émissions télévisées.
LCCN	2024040176
ISBN	9781644533550
ISBN	1644533553 paperback
ISBN	9781644533567 hardcover
ISBN	1644533561 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book

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