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the characters, or imagine how they would confront the crises depicted in the play. Prisoners are quick to recognise and comprehend the emotional resonances portrayed in Macbeth , Hamlet , King Lear , Merchant of Venice , Othello , Julius Caesar

II , Romeo and Juliet , Othello and King Lear . But in Titus , it is hard to do anything poetically or philosophically with these four rapid deaths, and they are difficult to stage in a way that modern audiences find convincing. Wells

-Seed ( The Tempest ), Tracy Chevalier's New Boy ( Othello ), Gillian Flynn's Hamlet , Jo Nesbø's Macbeth and Edward St Aubyn's King Lear . Hogarth Press commissioned a number of best-loved novelists to take the plays of Shakespeare and use them to

Vulgar slang for ‘penis’. Shakespeare would later use the word in King Lear when Edgar, in the guise of Poor Tom o’ Bedlam, sings ‘Pillicock sat on Pillicock’s hill. / ’Allow, ’Allow, loo, loo!’ (3.4.73–4). The name also appears to play on the fact that

.1.365. 9 A.C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (London: Macmillan, 1961), 144. 10 L.P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005), 4. 11 Giraldi Cinthio (1565

those who find his provincial background difficult to reconcile with his achievements, the greatest of which, most agree, was King Lear . He is Donald Wolfit and the town is Newark-upon-Trent, in the county of Nottinghamshire. A major concern of this

acts, as well as the original setting and period-specific character outfits. 28 Cf. Yujing Ma, ‘“Shakespearean Texts” in Japanese Manga: Versions of King Lear , The Merchant of Venice , Macbeth and Hamlet ’, 13–32, https

suffices here to mention that Shakespeare alludes to Persians only twice in his entire canon: The Merchant of Venice (II.i.25) and King Lear (III.vi.81). Finally, one should draw attention to a possible Oriental source for The Taming of the Shrew

: Routledge, 2003), 6. 5 A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy; Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (London: Macmillan, 1905), 72–102. 6 All extracts from Hamlet have been taken from: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of

which provides an overview of his conception of the term; 50 the second features some close reading of the ideological currents at play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear ; 51 and the third examines the ideological biases present in the