The Black Prince
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The Black Prince is a 1973 novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The novel centers on a middle-aged Shakespeare critic and aspiring novelist who begins a sexual relationship with the teenage daughter of his rival and former student. The title alludes to Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the novel explores complex Freudian dynamics within its plot.12
Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British novelist and philosopher known for her psychological novels that often blended philosophical and comic elements, convoluted plots, and realistic observations of 20th-century life. She also wrote plays, verse, and works of philosophy and literary criticism.12
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