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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page 3
... original King Lear often mani- fested in the period , and includes extracts from John Dryden , John Dennis and Joseph Addison ( on ' poetical justice ' ) , Charlotte Lennox , and Samuel Johnson , amongst others . Part Three ( p . 38 ) ...
... original King Lear often mani- fested in the period , and includes extracts from John Dryden , John Dennis and Joseph Addison ( on ' poetical justice ' ) , Charlotte Lennox , and Samuel Johnson , amongst others . Part Three ( p . 38 ) ...
Page 4
... original King Lear , and then uses this essay to chart some differences between Dickens ' reading of the Fool , and those of his Romantic peers . Part One of this chapter ( p . 89 ) covers ' Character Criticism and the Redemption of ...
... original King Lear , and then uses this essay to chart some differences between Dickens ' reading of the Fool , and those of his Romantic peers . Part One of this chapter ( p . 89 ) covers ' Character Criticism and the Redemption of ...
Page 6
... original works , lived through by the author or authors ; whereas the works of Shakespeare . . . have nothing whatever in common with art and poetry . □ Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy , ' Shakespeare and the Drama " 2 Our third extract needs ...
... original works , lived through by the author or authors ; whereas the works of Shakespeare . . . have nothing whatever in common with art and poetry . □ Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy , ' Shakespeare and the Drama " 2 Our third extract needs ...
Page 11
... original , and partly because to express admiration is to enter into a political minefield . This paradoxical situation , in which expressions of positive value are con- tained at once because such admiration is traditional , because it ...
... original , and partly because to express admiration is to enter into a political minefield . This paradoxical situation , in which expressions of positive value are con- tained at once because such admiration is traditional , because it ...
Page 12
Susan Bruce. staged in anything like its original form for more than one hundred and fifty years , and if , today , most of those who read Tate's version find it a travesty of the original text , the same cannot be said for many of those ...
Susan Bruce. staged in anything like its original form for more than one hundred and fifty years , and if , today , most of those who read Tate's version find it a travesty of the original text , the same cannot be said for many of those ...
Contents
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A.C. Bradley action aesthetic argues attack audience blind Bradley Bradley's Brian Vickers century chapter character clown conception Coppélia Cordelia Cornwall daughters death Dickens Dover drama Edgar edition Edmund effect Empson essay express extract eyes father feeling feudal Foakes Fool Freud Garrick Gervinus Gloster Gloucester Gloucester's gods Goneril Guizot Hamlet heart historical Hugo human illusion Kent kind King Lear Kott L. C. Knights literary London mind moral motives nature Neo-Classical Orwell Oswald passion person play's poet poetic justice question reading of King reason renunciation representation represented reprinted role Romantic scene Schlegel seems sense Shakespeare Shakespeare Our Contemporary Shakespeare's plays Shakespearean tragedy social soul speak spectator speech stage suffering Swinburne Tate Tate's adaptation Tate's Lear theme theory thing thou tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's tragic unity universal Vickers Wheel of Fire whole William Shakespeare Wilson Knight women words writing