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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... tragedy written by the greatest dramatist of the post - classical world , and as one of the monuments of Western civilisation ' : few today would nail their colours to the mast in terms so unabashedly value - laden . Yet even those who ...
... tragedy written by the greatest dramatist of the post - classical world , and as one of the monuments of Western civilisation ' : few today would nail their colours to the mast in terms so unabashedly value - laden . Yet even those who ...
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... tragedies ' ( John Keble , 1830 ) ' Hamlet is the greatest creation in literature that I know of ' ( Alfred , Lord ... tragedy of Lear , deservedly celebrated among the dramas of Shakespeare , is commonly regarded as his greatest ...
... tragedies ' ( John Keble , 1830 ) ' Hamlet is the greatest creation in literature that I know of ' ( Alfred , Lord ... tragedy of Lear , deservedly celebrated among the dramas of Shakespeare , is commonly regarded as his greatest ...
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... tragedies to the anxieties and problems of the modern world . ( Foakes , p . 224 ) Students , as well as some critics , sometimes assume that literary criticism gets better the closer one gets to our own age . But the principle of ...
... tragedies to the anxieties and problems of the modern world . ( Foakes , p . 224 ) Students , as well as some critics , sometimes assume that literary criticism gets better the closer one gets to our own age . But the principle of ...
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NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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