Lear’s Daughters : Poaching the Cultural Capital of King Lear
Keywords:
Shakespeare Adaptation, Canonisation, Decanonisation, Gender StereotypesAbstract
The paper is an attempt to analyse the political dimensions of adaptations and the decanonising attempts made by the subsequent generations especially women writers. The play titled Lear's Daughters produced by the Women's Theatre Group in London is the focus of analysis here.
