William Shakespeare, King LearSusan Bruce Columbia University Press, 1998 - 192 Seiten This Critical Guide helps students sift through and make sense of nearly three centuries of Lear criticism, providing insight into different assessments of the play's merit and its place within Shakespeare's work and the canon of English literature. Highlights include excerpts from the neoclassical and Romantic receptions of King Lear -- material from John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Victor Hugo -- and a discussion of recent and current trends in criticism of the play. |
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... character ) in literature . I. Bruce , Susan , 1960. II . Series . PR2819.W53 822.3'3 - dc21 1998 98-39508 Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid - free paper . Printed in the ...
... character ) in literature . I. Bruce , Susan , 1960. II . Series . PR2819.W53 822.3'3 - dc21 1998 98-39508 Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid - free paper . Printed in the ...
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... character , and his madness : writers excerpted here include William Richardson . Part Four ( p . 42 ) dis- cusses productions of ( Tate's ) Lear , and includes several accounts of David Garrick's representation of the role of Lear ...
... character , and his madness : writers excerpted here include William Richardson . Part Four ( p . 42 ) dis- cusses productions of ( Tate's ) Lear , and includes several accounts of David Garrick's representation of the role of Lear ...
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... Character Criticism and the Redemption of King Lear ' : A. C. Bradley's account of the play , still influential amongst students of English Literature today . Also included in this section of the chapter are extracts from Anna Jameson ...
... Character Criticism and the Redemption of King Lear ' : A. C. Bradley's account of the play , still influential amongst students of English Literature today . Also included in this section of the chapter are extracts from Anna Jameson ...
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... character of Lear himself : □ Now when the Poet has . . . work'd up ... his Audience to a full Compassion of the King's Misfortunes , to give a finishing stroke to that Passion he makes his Sorrows to have turn'd his Brain . In which ...
... character of Lear himself : □ Now when the Poet has . . . work'd up ... his Audience to a full Compassion of the King's Misfortunes , to give a finishing stroke to that Passion he makes his Sorrows to have turn'd his Brain . In which ...
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... characters continually do and say what is not only unnatural to them , but utterly unnecessary . . . It is sufficient to read King Lear alone , with its insanity , murders , plucking out of eyes , Gloucester's jump , its poisonings ...
... characters continually do and say what is not only unnatural to them , but utterly unnecessary . . . It is sufficient to read King Lear alone , with its insanity , murders , plucking out of eyes , Gloucester's jump , its poisonings ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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