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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... play , still influential amongst students of English Literature today . Also included in this section of the chapter are extracts from Anna Jameson , on Cordelia . Part Two ( p . 101 ) treats those who were among the very few pre ...
... play , still influential amongst students of English Literature today . Also included in this section of the chapter are extracts from Anna Jameson , on Cordelia . Part Two ( p . 101 ) treats those who were among the very few pre ...
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... 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 , to give a finishing ...
... 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 , to give a finishing ...
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... play scene by scene . ] The second act [ of King Lear is ] full of unnatural events , and yet more unnatural speeches , not flowing from the position of the charac- ters , and finishing with a scene between Lear and his daughters which ...
... play scene by scene . ] The second act [ of King Lear is ] full of unnatural events , and yet more unnatural speeches , not flowing from the position of the charac- ters , and finishing with a scene between Lear and his daughters which ...
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... play are given to Edgar in the Folio , and to Albany in the Quarto , and there are other changes : the role of the Fool , for instance , has been argued to be different in the two texts , as have those of Albany , of Edgar , and of Kent ...
... play are given to Edgar in the Folio , and to Albany in the Quarto , and there are other changes : the role of the Fool , for instance , has been argued to be different in the two texts , as have those of Albany , of Edgar , and of Kent ...
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... play's crowning glory or ' finishing stroke ' heads Tolstoy's list of the play's manifold implausibilities . King Lear , like all of Shakespeare's plays , is for Tolstoy repulsive , tedious , ' trivial and positively bad ' . In Theobald ...
... play's crowning glory or ' finishing stroke ' heads Tolstoy's list of the play's manifold implausibilities . King Lear , like all of Shakespeare's plays , is for Tolstoy repulsive , tedious , ' trivial and positively bad ' . In Theobald ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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