Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear:  Act I, Scene 2

Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act I, Scene 2, 1930

John Erskine James Yunge-Bateman

Edmund says married people “doth within a dull, stale, tirèd bed / Go to th’ creating a whole tribe of fops.” A 1930 edition of the play (first performed in 1606) has turned up on eBay; its illustrations offer a vision you might not recognize from your high school English lit class. The drawings are by John Yunge-Bateman, who has clearly studied Aubrey Beardsley’s work. Yunge (as he .... http://www.heavymetal.com/news/artwork/illustrated-king-lear-from-1930-is-horrifying-and-creepy/#!prettyPhoto
Uploaded on Aug 31, 2016 by Suzan Hamer

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