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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... early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The period covered by this chapter was dominated by Neo - Classicist theory , and by Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear . Part One of this chapter ( p . 16 ) reprints extracts ...
... early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The period covered by this chapter was dominated by Neo - Classicist theory , and by Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear . Part One of this chapter ( p . 16 ) reprints extracts ...
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... early 1960s was dominated by redemptionist , Christian , read- ings of King Lear ; Part One ( p . 117 ) extracts two such readings , Wilson Knight's and L. C. Knights ' , and explains the New Critical theory which lay beneath both the ...
... early 1960s was dominated by redemptionist , Christian , read- ings of King Lear ; Part One ( p . 117 ) extracts two such readings , Wilson Knight's and L. C. Knights ' , and explains the New Critical theory which lay beneath both the ...
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... early eighteenth - 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 ...
... early eighteenth - 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 ...
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... 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 ' and ' Folio ' refer to the size of the books ) . In the ...
... 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 ' and ' Folio ' refer to the size of the books ) . In the ...
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... early editions of King Lear , to 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 ...
... early editions of King Lear , to 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 ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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