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  • Cliffscomplete King Lear
    by Sidney Lamb, Stacy Mulder
    ISBN 0764585711 (0-7645-8571-1)
    Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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    In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.

    In this tragic play, Lear, a ruler in pre-Christian Britain, is described as a "very foolish old man." Grossly misjudging his daughters, he endures a harrowing experience and emerges as a man "more sinned against than sinning." This most tragic of Shakespearean plays speaks to us repeatedly about fate and chance, destiny and the gods. But we also are reminded that humanity has free will  and King Lear's choices lead to madness.

    Enhance your reading of King Lear and save valuable studying time  all at once  with CliffsComplete King Lear. Studying is easier with features that include

    • Shakespeare's original play
    • Notes and definitions that appear directly opposite the line in which they occur
    • A summary and insightful commentary for each scene
    • Bibliography and historical background on the playwright, William Shakespeare
    • A look at the historical context and structure of the play
    • Discussions on the play's symbols and themes
    • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
    • Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
    • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

    Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!

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  • Cuentos De Canterbury
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Ivana Mollo
    ISBN 849764803X (84-9764-803-X)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
    Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.
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  • Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today
    by Margot Adler
    ISBN 0807032379 (0-8070-3237-9)
    Softcover, Beacon Press

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    Popular demand for this clear-sighted compendium of information about the rebirth of Pagan religion hasn't waned since its initial publication in 1979. Distinguished by the journalism of US National Public Radio columnist Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon explains this diverse and burgeoning religion's philosophies and activities while dispelling stereotypes that have long been associated with it. Most people don't realise that "pagan" simply refers to pre-Christian polytheistic nature religions such as the various Native American creeds, Japanese Shinto, Celtic Druidry and Western European Wicca. Originally, the word pagan meant "country dweller" and was a derogatory term in third-century Rome, not unlike calling someone a "hick" today. If you find yourself feeling queasy when you hear the words witch or pagan, a healthy dose of re-education via Drawing Down the Moon could be the cure. --P. Randall Cohan [via]

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  • Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community
    by Sarah M. Pike
    ISBN 0520220862 (0-520-22086-2)
    Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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    Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies. Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves incorporates her personal experience and insightful scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative. The result is a compelling portrait of this frequently misunderstood religious movement.
    Neo-paganism began emerging as a new religious movement in the late 1960s. In addition to bringing together followers for self-exploration and participation in group rituals, festivals might offer workshops on subjects such as astrology, tarot, mythology, herbal lore, and African drumming. But while they provide a sense of community for followers, Neo-Pagan festivals often provoke criticism from a variety of sources--among them conservative Christians, Native Americans, New Age spokespersons, and media representatives covering stories of rumored "Satanism" or "witchcraft."
    Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves explores larger issues in the United States regarding the postmodern self, utopian communities, cultural improvisation, and contemporary spirituality. Pike's accessible writing style and her nonsensationalistic approach do much to demystify neo-paganism and its followers.
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  • Shakespeare, William: The First Quarto of King Lear
    The First Quarto of King Lear
    by William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio, A. R. Braunmuller, Brian Gibbons
    ISBN 0521587077 (0-521-58707-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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  • The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. Spearing
    ISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
    Softcover, Cambridge University Press

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    A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings. [via]

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    by Winthrop Wetherbee
    ISBN 0521323312 (0-521-32331-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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    On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.

    From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]

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  • Shakespeare, William: The History of King Lear
    The History of King Lear
    by William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, James Black
    ISBN 071315862X (0-7131-5862-X)
    Softcover, Edward Arnold

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  • Ian Pollock's Illustrated King Lear
    by William Shakespeare, Ian Pollock
    ISBN 0894806734 (0-89480-673-4)
    Softcover, Workman Pub Co

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  • Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
    by William Shakespeare
    ISBN 0807063800 (0-8070-6380-0)
    Softcover, Beacon Pr

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    Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.

    By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written. [via]

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  • King Lear
    by William Shakespeare
    ISBN 1420926179 (1-4209-2617-9)
    Softcover, Digireads.Com

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    Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English languagebut his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dogs Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel.

    King Lear is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. King Lear is illustrated in full color by Ian Pollack and includes a synopsis of the play, and an illustrated character list. Its a marvelous way to experience Shakespeare for the first timeor the tenthand is sure to be attractive to students and theatre fans alike. [via]

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  • King Lear
    by Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine
    ISBN 0743452941 (0-7434-5294-1)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    In "King Lear," one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. In this play, we see ourselves and our small vices magnified to gigantic proportions; also, through the character of Lear, we see the end of our lives, with old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, helplessness, pride, and finally, perhaps, wisdom.

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    Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]

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  • King Lear
    by R. A. Foakes
    ISBN 1903436591 (1-903436-59-1)
    Softcover, Arden Shakespeare

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    In the first part of Foakes's introduction, the editor examines King Lear as it is read in the mind versus how it is performed on the stage, analyzing historical productions and certain elements of the play that shine in performance but not in text, and vice versa. This section also explores how and why the play has invited so many interpretations, in reading and performance, since its inception. The next part of the introduction considers trends in the criticism and staging of the play, such as the recent shift of favor from redemptive to bleak readings. Foakes then addresses the dating of the play, the differences among the Quarto and Folio texts, and whether these changes are mere discrepancies or intentional revisions. Finally, the editor discusses the casting of the play and explains notable usages in his edition. There are two appendices that follow the play: the first examines two textual problems that are particularly difficult to interpret, and the second explains differences in lineation between the Quarto and Folio editions, which resulted from confusion whether certain lines were in prose or verse. This edition also includes lists of illustrations, abbreviations, and references, as well as a general editors preface and an index.

    The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.

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  • Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
    by Joseph Gibaldi
    ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
    Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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    The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]

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  • Achtert, Walter S.: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
    MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
    by Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph Gibaldi
    ISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
    Hardcover, Modern Language Association

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  • Monarch Notes on Shakespeare's King Lear
    by William Shakespeare
    ISBN 0671005154 (0-671-00515-4)
    Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
    ISBN 1557987912 (1-55798-791-2)
    Softcover, Amer Psychological Assn

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    In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of w riting, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive covera ge of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathemati cal data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presenta tions. [via]

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  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
    by American Psychological Association
    ISBN 0912704578 (0-912704-57-8)
    Softcover, The Association

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  • The Tragedy of King Lear
    by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman
    ISBN 1557834369 (1-55783-436-9)
    Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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    For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Jay Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-33111-0 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-33729-1 [via]

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  • The Tragedy of King Lear
    by Jay L. Halio
    ISBN 0521612632 (0-521-61263-2)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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    For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Jay Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-33111-0 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-33729-1 [via]

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  • Wright, Louis B.: The Tragedy of King Lear
    The Tragedy of King Lear
    by Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. Lamar, William Shakspeare
    ISBN 067148852X (0-671-48852-X)
    Hardcover, Pocket Books

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