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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... express my admiration for King Lear in the same terms as does Theobald , nor ascribe it to the same qualities of the text ; and that Taylor's position seems to me to be inconsistent : if there is no ' real ' King Lear , there is nothing ...
... express my admiration for King Lear in the same terms as does Theobald , nor ascribe it to the same qualities of the text ; and that Taylor's position seems to me to be inconsistent : if there is no ' real ' King Lear , there is nothing ...
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... express that admira- tion , partly because admiration is neither new nor original , and partly because to express admiration is to enter into a political minefield . This paradoxical situation , in which expressions of positive value ...
... express that admira- tion , partly because admiration is neither new nor original , and partly because to express admiration is to enter into a political minefield . This paradoxical situation , in which expressions of positive value ...
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... express this in the kind of terms Stanley Wells uses when he states that ' King Lear is widely regarded as the greatest tragedy written by the greatest dramatist of the post - classical world , and as one of the monuments of Western ...
... express this in the kind of terms Stanley Wells uses when he states that ' King Lear is widely regarded as the greatest tragedy written by the greatest dramatist of the post - classical world , and as one of the monuments of Western ...
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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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