This tragic drama, now presented as a multimedia resource suitable for students and scholars alike, speaks with an eloquence that has stood the test of time. On this CD-ROM, Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre and Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Institute use portions of a recent major film production of the play to provide a clear analysis of what many consider to be Shakespeare’s most enigmatic work. The CD-ROM includes a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronized with dramatizations of key scenes and speeches with on-screen text; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their roles; literary criticism of the text; scholarly essays featuring modern perspectives on King Lear (Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, structuralist); a biography of Shakespeare; excerpts from A. C. Bradley’s definitive lecture series, Shakespearean Tragedy; a facsimile of the First Folio edition of the text; a clickable word glossary with accurate modern definitions of words no longer in common use; a bibliography of critical works; a history of King Lear in performance; and Internet links to Web sites devoted to Shakespearean scholarship. The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.