King Lear : New Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780415775267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 384 str.

Kahan Jeffrey

Opis

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, this book offers interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of "King Lear".

Spis treści

1. Introduction  - Jeffrey Kahan  2. The Evolution of King Lear - R.A. Foakes  3. The Evolution of the Texts of Lear - Richard Knowles  4. King Lear and Early Seventeenth-Century Print Culture - Cyndia Susan Clegg  5. "The injuries that they themselves procure": Justice Poetic and Pragmatic, and Aspects of the Endplay, in King Lear  - Tom Clayton 6.What Does Shakespeare Leave Out of King Lear? - Jean R Brink  7. The Cause of Thunder: Nature and Justice in King Lear - Paul A. Cantor  8.Hope and Despair in King Lear: The Gospel and the Crisis of Natural Law - R.V. Young  9. Lear in Kierkegaard - Stanley Stewart  10. The Smell of Mortality: Performing Torture in King Lear  - Edward L. Rocklin  11. Some Lears of Private Life, from Tate to Shaw - Christy Desmet  12. If Only: Alternatives and the Self in King Lear - Jeffrey Kahan