{"product_id":"lears-other-shadow-a-cultural-history-of-queen-lear","title":"Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear","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":"Thomas G Olsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46386936381676,"sku":"9781644533550","price":43.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46386936414444,"sku":"9781644533567","price":205.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781644533550.jpg?v=1745110739","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/lears-other-shadow-a-cultural-history-of-queen-lear","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}