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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... century response to the play . Here is Lewis Theobald ( 1688-1744 ) , editor of Shakespeare , on the character of Lear himself : □ Now when the Poet has . . . work'd up ... his Audience to a full Compassion of the King's Misfortunes ...
... century response to the play . Here is Lewis Theobald ( 1688-1744 ) , editor of Shakespeare , on the character of Lear himself : □ Now when the Poet has . . . work'd up ... his Audience to a full Compassion of the King's Misfortunes ...
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... century audience . All of Shakespeare's works were 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 ...
... century audience . All of Shakespeare's works were 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 ...
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... century editors . Thereafter , the text is continually remade , in small ways , although the received structure remains intact . Now we see that text being remade again , fundamentally . Whatever the cogency of Hunter's arguments , the ...
... century editors . Thereafter , the text is continually remade , in small ways , although the received structure remains intact . Now we see that text being remade again , fundamentally . Whatever the cogency of Hunter's arguments , the ...
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... century critics wrote , by and large , for an ( admittedly highly educated and therefore elite ) general public , and they saw their task as one of explaining to that public the virtues and failings of the text that they took as their ...
... century critics wrote , by and large , for an ( admittedly highly educated and therefore elite ) general public , and they saw their task as one of explaining to that public the virtues and failings of the text that they took as their ...
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... century . With this development , writing about English literature increasingly became produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for ...
... century . With this development , writing about English literature increasingly became produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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