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1000 Acres and King Lear
Title: 1000 Acres and King Lear
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 778 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
1000 Acres and King Lear
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 …showed first 75 words of 778 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 778 total…a serpent-toothed child who betrays her father, here Caroline's betrayal is against her stand-in “mothers” Ginny and Rose. It is her love for Larry that marks her as the thankless child. We never actually see Larry's most terrible sins; we only have Ginny and Rose's accounts of them. The option exists that we are deliberately being shown not a revised view of Lear but an equally one-sided perspective, exactly as unfinished and unreliable as Shakespeare's.
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