King Lear Pelican Shakespeare Vintage Penguin Paperback Fair

King Lear, part of The Pelican Shakespeare series edited by Alfred Harbage, published by Penguin Books, Baltimore, this edition first published 1958. This classic student edition features scholarly annotations, a full cast list, and the appendix Quarto Text, with cover art by C. Walter Hodges depicting an Elizabethan theater scene. This well-loved copy shows its history of use with student pencil and ink annotations throughout the text, a torn and water-stained front cover, and some soiling to the back cover. A charming piece of mid-century educational publishing for Shakespeare enthusiasts, theater students, or collectors of vintage Pelican paperbacks!