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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Susan Bruce. Contents INTRODUCTION The Question of Value 5 The introduction touches upon different assessments of the literary merit of King Lear and its position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about ...
Susan Bruce. Contents INTRODUCTION The Question of Value 5 The introduction touches upon different assessments of the literary merit of King Lear and its position in the canon , and links this debate to recent editorial questions about ...
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... King Lear . Critics extracted here are : Stanley Cavell , Jonathan Goldberg , Kathleen McLuskie , Coppélia Kahn , Stephen Greenblatt , Lisa Jardine and Richard Halpern . INTRODUCTION The Question of Value L ET US begin with.
... King Lear . Critics extracted here are : Stanley Cavell , Jonathan Goldberg , Kathleen McLuskie , Coppélia Kahn , Stephen Greenblatt , Lisa Jardine and Richard Halpern . INTRODUCTION The Question of Value L ET US begin with.
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Susan Bruce. INTRODUCTION The Question of Value L ET US begin with three assessments of King Lear . The first is an example of an early eighteenth - century response to the play . Here is Lewis Theobald ( 1688-1744 ) ... Question of Value.
Susan Bruce. INTRODUCTION The Question of Value L ET US begin with three assessments of King Lear . The first is an example of an early eighteenth - century response to the play . Here is Lewis Theobald ( 1688-1744 ) ... Question of Value.
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... question , or indeed to offer explicit judgement on the relative merits of the criticism on the play that I will be reproducing in the pages which follow , although , for the record , I will say here that my own opinion on the text's ...
... question , or indeed to offer explicit judgement on the relative merits of the criticism on the play that I will be reproducing in the pages which follow , although , for the record , I will say here that my own opinion on the text's ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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