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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... Daughters or Discoursing of them . The Charms of the Sentiments , and Diction , are too numerous to come under the Observation of a single Paper ... Lewis Theobald , from The Censor , no.10 ( 2 May 1715 ) . ' The second extract was ...
... Daughters or Discoursing of them . The Charms of the Sentiments , and Diction , are too numerous to come under the Observation of a single Paper ... Lewis Theobald , from The Censor , no.10 ( 2 May 1715 ) . ' The second extract was ...
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... daughters which might have been powerful if it had not been permeated with the most absurdly foolish , unnatural speeches . . . put into the mouth of Lear . Lear's vacillations ... would be exceedingly touching if they were not spoiled ...
... daughters which might have been powerful if it had not been permeated with the most absurdly foolish , unnatural speeches . . . put into the mouth of Lear . Lear's vacillations ... would be exceedingly touching if they were not spoiled ...
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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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