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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... Tolstoy , and Orwell . CHAPTER FOUR From Christianity to Chaos 116 A brief introduction to this chapter explains that the period from 1904 until the early 1960s was dominated by redemptionist , Christian , read- ings of King Lear ; Part ...
... Tolstoy , and Orwell . CHAPTER FOUR From Christianity to Chaos 116 A brief introduction to this chapter explains that the period from 1904 until the early 1960s was dominated by redemptionist , Christian , read- ings of King Lear ; Part ...
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... Tolstoy , recounting his experience of Shakespeare , and in particular , of King Lear : □ I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare . I expected to receive a powerful aesthetic pleasure , but . . . I felt an ...
... Tolstoy , recounting his experience of Shakespeare , and in particular , of King Lear : □ I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare . I expected to receive a powerful aesthetic pleasure , but . . . I felt an ...
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... Tolstoy surveys the general critical consensus on Lear , from Dr Johnson to Brandes , and then begins to attack the play scene by scene . ] The second act [ of King Lear is ] full of unnatural events , and yet more unnatural speeches ...
... Tolstoy surveys the general critical consensus on Lear , from Dr Johnson to Brandes , and then begins to attack the play scene by scene . ] The second act [ of King Lear is ] full of unnatural events , and yet more unnatural speeches ...
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... Tolstoy sees only ' verbose absurdities ' ; where Theobald extols Shakespeare's consummate knowledge of nature , Tolstoy condemns him for ubiquitous unnaturalness ; what Theobald sees as the play's crowning glory or ' finishing stroke ...
... Tolstoy sees only ' verbose absurdities ' ; where Theobald extols Shakespeare's consummate knowledge of nature , Tolstoy condemns him for ubiquitous unnaturalness ; what Theobald sees as the play's crowning glory or ' finishing stroke ...
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... Tolstoy , if not in a minority of one , was a fairly lone voice ) . It would take an entire volume fully to account for the contemporary reluctance explicitly to address questions of value , but here are some brief suggestions . One ...
... Tolstoy , if not in a minority of one , was a fairly lone voice ) . It would take an entire volume fully to account for the contemporary reluctance explicitly to address questions of value , but here are some brief suggestions . One ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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