William Shakespeare, King LearSusan Bruce Columbia University Press, 1998 - 192 pages 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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... Criticism of King Lear 149 This chapter attempts , through extract more than explication , to offer some sense of the variety of the criticism which has proliferated since the 1960s , and especially in the last decade ; it also attempts ...
... Criticism of King Lear 149 This chapter attempts , through extract more than explication , to offer some sense of the variety of the criticism which has proliferated since the 1960s , and especially in the last decade ; it also attempts ...
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... criticism and almost all of the critical 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 ...
... criticism and almost all of the critical 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 ...
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... critic . This started to change with the creation of English as a subject of university study towards the end of the nineteenth century . With this development , writing about English literature increasingly became produced within ...
... critic . This started to change with the creation of English as a subject of university study towards the end of the nineteenth century . With this development , writing about English literature increasingly became produced within ...
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... critics who do admire Shakespeare , and King Lear , sometimes struggle to find the terms in which to express that admira- tion , partly because admiration is neither new nor original , and partly because to express admiration is to ...
... critics who do admire Shakespeare , and King Lear , sometimes struggle to find the terms in which to express that admira- tion , partly because admiration is neither new nor original , and partly because to express admiration is to ...
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... critics today , it did dog the reception of King Lear for many years after its original appearance . The extracts with which I began this introduction , then , are not necessarily ' representative ' of their respective ages . Theobald ...
... critics today , it did dog the reception of King Lear for many years after its original appearance . The extracts with which I began this introduction , then , are not necessarily ' representative ' of their respective ages . Theobald ...
Contents
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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