莎士比亚的《李尔王》是莎剧中最著名的悲剧之一,近现代的文学作品中有不少对其的改编。20世纪90年代美国作家斯迈利的普利策获奖小说《一千英亩》从女性的视角重新进入经典文本,不仅给读者展现了发生在美国中西部的现代版的李尔王故事,更为读者提供了一个新的视角重新品读莎翁的《李尔王》,尤其是思考其悲剧原因。 Shakespeare’s “King Lear” is one of the most famous tragedies in Shakespearean drama. There are many adaptations of his works in modern literature. The one-thousand-acre Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the American writer Smalley in the 1990s re-entered the classic text from a female perspective. It not only showed the reader the story of King Lear in a modern version of the Midwest in the United States The reader offers a new perspective to re-read Sharon’s “King Lear,” especially thinking about the causes of his tragedy.