William Shakespeare, King LearThis 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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Contents
NeoClassicism | 15 |
Romanticism | 48 |
Realism | 83 |
From Christianity to Chaos | 116 |
Contemporary Criticism of King Lear | 149 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | William Shakespeare, King Lear Columbia critical guides, ISSN 1559-3002 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Susan Bruce |
| Editor | Susan Bruce |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0231115296, 9780231115292 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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