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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... extracts from Tate's Lear and some responses to it . Part Two ( p . 26 ) explains the aesthetic ' Rules ' which motivated both Tate's adaptation and the hostility to the original King Lear often mani- fested in the period , and includes ...
... extracts from Tate's Lear and some responses to it . Part Two ( p . 26 ) explains the aesthetic ' Rules ' which motivated both Tate's adaptation and the hostility to the original King Lear often mani- fested in the period , and includes ...
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... extracts from Anna Jameson , on Cordelia . Part Two ( p . 101 ) treats those who were among the very few pre - 1960s ... extract more than explication , to offer some sense of the variety of the criticism which has proliferated since the ...
... extracts from Anna Jameson , on Cordelia . Part Two ( p . 101 ) treats those who were among the very few pre - 1960s ... extract more than explication , to offer some sense of the variety of the criticism which has proliferated since the ...
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... extract was written almost 200 years later , in 1906. This is Leo 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 ...
... extract was written almost 200 years later , in 1906. This is Leo 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 ...
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... extract needs some introduction . One of the difficulties we have in talking about King Lear is that the version of the text which students , and many academics , generally read , is not one which would have been familiar to a ...
... extract needs some introduction . One of the difficulties we have in talking about King Lear is that the version of the text which students , and many academics , generally read , is not one which would have been familiar to a ...
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... extract comes from Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare ( 1990 ) , and concerns a debate which took place at a conference in Williamstown , Massachusetts , between G.K. Hunter , who was defending the composite version of the text which ...
... extract comes from Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare ( 1990 ) , and concerns a debate which took place at a conference in Williamstown , Massachusetts , between G.K. Hunter , who was defending the composite version of the text which ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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