King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations in Bloomington, MN

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.
As part of the My Reading series,
King Lear
is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how
can aid people whose lives need help. Reading
leads Frank to both an encounter with his own old age and a source of consolation-companionship—in his future. This book does not try to minimize vulnerabilities, but it shows what is fully human, and thus shared, in suffering. The book introduces readers to
, and it invites those who know the play to a new consideration for its ability to affect people's lives.