1000 Acres and King Lear

Date Submitted: 10/22/2004 10:06:17
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (745 words)
Every book adaptation of an existing work has its own set of problems. Not only was Jane Smiley's 1991 novel a Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller with a large number of devoted fans, but the book A Thousand Acres was in turn self-conscious reworking of King Lear, which is a play with a larger number of more devoted fans. It might not be fair to directly compare Smiley's text with Shakespeare but the way in which this …
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