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Jane Smiley
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SOURCE: “Contemporary Retellings: A Thousand Acres as the Latest Lear,” in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer, 1998, pp. 367–81.

In the following essay, Schiff discusses Smiley's rewriting of King Lear in A Thousand Acres.

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