From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series,King Lear , edited by Claire McEachern, presents the play along with a critical introduction and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, theLongman Cultural Editions,D>series presentsKing Lear in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. This edition incorporates contemporary contexts that include source documents, intellectual and textual history as well as receptions of and reactions to the play from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Readers interested in Shakespeare's play King Lear.