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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... writing in a time of revolution , and sought both to rehabilitate Shakespeare and to redefine the role of the critic , as the introduction to this chapter explains . Writers extracted here include Hugo , Guizot , Keats and Lamb . Part ...
... writing in a time of revolution , and sought both to rehabilitate Shakespeare and to redefine the role of the critic , as the introduction to this chapter explains . Writers extracted here include Hugo , Guizot , Keats and Lamb . Part ...
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... writers have remarked , has no authority at all ) . ^ Many explanations have been offered for the inconsistencies between the two early versions of the play : that the Quarto is an early , pre - production version of the play , taken ...
... writers have remarked , has no authority at all ) . ^ Many explanations have been offered for the inconsistencies between the two early versions of the play : that the Quarto is an early , pre - production version of the play , taken ...
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... writer in his ability to manipulate his audience to sympathise with his hero , in the ' charms ' of his ' sentiments ' and ' diction ' , and in his ' knowledge ' of ' nature ' . Tolstoy , by contrast , sees no such charms in King Lear ...
... writer in his ability to manipulate his audience to sympathise with his hero , in the ' charms ' of his ' sentiments ' and ' diction ' , and in his ' knowledge ' of ' nature ' . Tolstoy , by contrast , sees no such charms in King Lear ...
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... writing which precedes it is that practising literary critics today almost never address the question of value , whereas critics of the past almost always did ( and generally sought to defend their perceptions of the greatness of ...
... writing which precedes it is that practising literary critics today almost never address the question of value , whereas critics of the past almost always did ( and generally sought to defend their perceptions of the greatness of ...
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... writing about English literature increasingly became produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for such writ- ing was the student and ...
... writing about English literature increasingly became produced within universities , and directed towards those working within those institutions . In the early years of this century the audience for such writ- ing was the student and ...
Inhalt
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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