Abstract
This chapter on Shakespeare’s King Lear and the covid-19 pandemic explore online discussion around productivity during the first UK lockdown of 2020, and particularly the notion that Shakespeare composed King Lear during the plague of 1604, using this as a basis to think through the implications of neo-liberalism and hyperproductivty.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Lockdown Cultures |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Arts and Humanities in the Year of the Pandemic, 2020-21 |
| Editors | Stella Bruzzi, Maurice Biriotti, Sam Caleb, Harvey Wiltshire |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | UCL Press |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Pages | 30-37 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781800083394 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781800083424 |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Nov 2022 |