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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... theory , and by Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear . Part One of this chapter ( p . 16 ) reprints extracts from Tate's Lear and some responses to it . Part Two ( p . 26 ) explains the aesthetic ' Rules ' which motivated both Tate's ...
... theory , and by Nahum Tate's adaptation of King Lear . Part One of this chapter ( p . 16 ) reprints extracts from Tate's Lear and some responses to it . Part Two ( p . 26 ) explains the aesthetic ' Rules ' which motivated both Tate's ...
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... theory which lay beneath both the content and the method of those readings . Part Two ( p . 132 ) covers two treatments of the text which stand out as interest- ingly anomalous in this period , Freud's , and William Empson's : both of ...
... theory which lay beneath both the content and the method of those readings . Part Two ( p . 132 ) covers two treatments of the text which stand out as interest- ingly anomalous in this period , Freud's , and William Empson's : both of ...
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... theory of revision , it should be noted , is not in itself entirely new , although the degree to which it is now accepted is . ) My third extract comes from Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare ( 1990 ) , and concerns a debate which ...
... theory of revision , it should be noted , is not in itself entirely new , although the degree to which it is now accepted is . ) My third extract comes from Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare ( 1990 ) , and concerns a debate which ...
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... theory that has occurred over the last two or three decades , to which we will return in the final chapter of this book . Critics writing on Shakespeare today , then , do not generally extol his virtues as they did prior to the ...
... theory that has occurred over the last two or three decades , to which we will return in the final chapter of this book . Critics writing on Shakespeare today , then , do not generally extol his virtues as they did prior to the ...
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... theory is increasingly shared by critics writing on the play , his implication that ' we ' would do well to take up our intellectual cudgels against a critical tradition which has thus far ' foreclosed a revolution against King Lear ...
... theory is increasingly shared by critics writing on the play , his implication that ' we ' would do well to take up our intellectual cudgels against a critical tradition which has thus far ' foreclosed a revolution against King Lear ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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