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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... writers extracted include Hugo , Guizot , Herder and Schlegel . Part Two ( p . 69 ) reprints longer essays on King Lear by Schlegel , Coleridge , Hazlitt , Guizot and Hugo . CHAPTER THREE Realism 83 The introduction to this chapter ...
... writers extracted include Hugo , Guizot , Herder and Schlegel . Part Two ( p . 69 ) reprints longer essays on King Lear by Schlegel , Coleridge , Hazlitt , Guizot and Hugo . CHAPTER THREE Realism 83 The introduction to this chapter ...
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... essay to chart some differences between Dickens ' reading of the Fool , and those of his Romantic peers . Part One of this chapter ( p . 89 ) covers ' Character Criticism and the Redemption of King Lear ' : A. C. Bradley's account of ...
... essay to chart some differences between Dickens ' reading of the Fool , and those of his Romantic peers . Part One of this chapter ( p . 89 ) covers ' Character Criticism and the Redemption of King Lear ' : A. C. Bradley's account of ...
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... essays : it is not , and nothing is gained by telling your reader how wonderful a speech is ' reason not the need ' - even if you think , as I do , that it is really pretty good ) . This , however , does not mean that the debate about ...
... essays : it is not , and nothing is gained by telling your reader how wonderful a speech is ' reason not the need ' - even if you think , as I do , that it is really pretty good ) . This , however , does not mean that the debate about ...
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... essay out because it has already been widely reproduced , I have on some occasions reproduced a shorter excerpt from it than I would otherwise have done in order to leave room for the representation of other , less well - known and / or ...
... essay out because it has already been widely reproduced , I have on some occasions reproduced a shorter excerpt from it than I would otherwise have done in order to leave room for the representation of other , less well - known and / or ...
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NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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