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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... produced in various editions in the late sixteenth and early seven- teenth centuries , generally in at least one Quarto version of the individual play , as well as in the 1623 Folio , which reprinted all the plays together ( ' Quarto ...
... produced in various editions in the late sixteenth and early seven- teenth centuries , generally in at least one Quarto version of the individual play , as well as in the 1623 Folio , which reprinted all the plays together ( ' Quarto ...
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... produce a composite version of the text ( which , as several recent writers have remarked , has no authority at all ) . ^ Many explanations have been offered for the inconsistencies between the two early versions of the play : that the ...
... produce a composite version of the text ( which , as several recent writers have remarked , has no authority at all ) . ^ Many explanations have been offered for the inconsistencies between the two early versions of the play : that the ...
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... produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for such writ- ing was the student and the scholar . More recently , coexistent with an ever ...
... produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for such writ- ing was the student and the scholar . More recently , coexistent with an ever ...
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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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