Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear by Olsen, Thomas G.
Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear by Olsen, Thomas G.

Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear

Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure...
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Author: Thomas G. Olsen
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Language: English
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Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear by Olsen, Thomas G.

Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear

$532.83
Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear by Olsen, Thomas G.

Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear

$532.83
Author: Thomas G. Olsen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 one-thousand-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.

Author: Thomas G. Olsen
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781644533567

About the Author
THOMAS G. OLSEN is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where he taught courses in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and book history. He is editor of The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (2004) and Tales for Shakespeare: Stories That Inspired the Plays (2019). His articles and reviews have appeared in SEL, Prose Studies, The Yale Library Gazette, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Shakespeare Yearbook, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Reformation, Annali d'Italianistica, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and elsewhere.


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