King Lear: Third SeriesBloomsbury Publishing, 2014 M09 25 - 455 pages 'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the 'educated public'.'Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol 134 |
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... Poor Tom's ' mad ' sayings and the insights gained by Lear and Gloucester in their suffering , the play vividly exposes human folly , greed and corruption . It incorporates aspects of pastoral and romance , recalls morality plays , has ...
... Poor Tom's ' mad ' sayings and the insights gained by Lear and Gloucester in their suffering , the play vividly exposes human folly , greed and corruption . It incorporates aspects of pastoral and romance , recalls morality plays , has ...
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... poor in the modern world . The innovatory dramatic technique of a play that overrides implausibilities by its imaginative power and emotional intensity anticipates the twentieth - century Theatre of the Absurd to the extent that King ...
... poor in the modern world . The innovatory dramatic technique of a play that overrides implausibilities by its imaginative power and emotional intensity anticipates the twentieth - century Theatre of the Absurd to the extent that King ...
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... Poor Tom emerges in 3.4 may have been simply a stage door , and the audience may have been expected to imagine the ' bush ' ( Q ) or ' tree ' ( F ) that shelters Gloucester in 5.2 . The play makes good use of visual action and effects ...
... Poor Tom emerges in 3.4 may have been simply a stage door , and the audience may have been expected to imagine the ' bush ' ( Q ) or ' tree ' ( F ) that shelters Gloucester in 5.2 . The play makes good use of visual action and effects ...
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... Poor Tom , ' I heard myself proclaimed ' , constituted a separate scene ( 2.3 ) . Here Kent remains on stage throughout , asleep in the stocks , so that the audience sees two noble characters humiliated , disguised and reduced to ...
... Poor Tom , ' I heard myself proclaimed ' , constituted a separate scene ( 2.3 ) . Here Kent remains on stage throughout , asleep in the stocks , so that the audience sees two noble characters humiliated , disguised and reduced to ...
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... poor , which might apply to later times . Shakespeare makes use of the antiquity of the legend to the extent that Lear invokes classical deities such as Hecate and Apollo , and unidentified pagan ' gods ' are appealed to throughout ; in ...
... poor , which might apply to later times . Shakespeare makes use of the antiquity of the legend to the extent that Lear invokes classical deities such as Hecate and Apollo , and unidentified pagan ' gods ' are appealed to throughout ; in ...
Contents
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KING LEAR | 153 |
Two textual problems | 393 |
Lineation | 403 |
Abbreviations and references | 416 |
Index | 430 |
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