{"product_id":"lears-other-shadow-1","title":"Lear's Other Shadow","description":"\u003ci\u003eLear’s Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMiriele Efros\u003c\/i\u003e (1898), through edgy stage remakes such as Gordon Bottomley’s \u003ci\u003eKing Lear’s Wife \u003c\/i\u003e(1915) and the Women’s Theatre Group’s \u003ci\u003eLear’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), to novelized retellings from Jane Smiley’s \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) to Preti Taneja’s \u003ci\u003eWe That Are Young \u003c\/i\u003e(2018) and J. R. Thorp’s \u003ci\u003eLearwife\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and even the television series \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e (2015–2020) and \u003ci\u003eSuccession \u003c\/i\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eLear's Other Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57261146014040,"sku":"9781644533567","price":116.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781644533567.jpg?v=1778394687","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lears-other-shadow-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}