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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... position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about the nature of the text itself , and its authority in early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The period covered by this chapter was ...
... position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about the nature of the text itself , and its authority in early modern versions . CHAPTER ONE Neo - Classicism 15 The period covered by this chapter was ...
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... position motivated at least in part by concern about social injustice ; extracts here are from Swinburne , Tolstoy , and Orwell . CHAPTER FOUR From Christianity to Chaos 116 A brief introduction to this chapter explains that the period ...
... position motivated at least in part by concern about social injustice ; extracts here are from Swinburne , Tolstoy , and Orwell . CHAPTER FOUR From Christianity to Chaos 116 A brief introduction to this chapter explains that the period ...
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... position of the charac- ters , and finishing with a scene between Lear and his 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 ...
... position of the charac- ters , and finishing with a scene between Lear and his 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 ...
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... position with which Taylor agrees : □ In contending that Shakespeare revised his work , these scholars themselves revise the accepted paradigms of editorial and critical practice . Their collective challenge to 250 years of Shakespeare ...
... position with which Taylor agrees : □ In contending that Shakespeare revised his work , these scholars themselves revise the accepted paradigms of editorial and critical practice . Their collective challenge to 250 years of Shakespeare ...
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... position . The audience can see for itself that there are now at least two texts of King Lear : Hunter's and Urkowitz ' . The debate itself demon- strates that Shakespeare's text is a contested site , that what we read must be decided ...
... position . The audience can see for itself that there are now at least two texts of King Lear : Hunter's and Urkowitz ' . The debate itself demon- strates that Shakespeare's text is a contested site , that what we read must be decided ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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