William Shakespeare's King Lear
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604138863
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: King Lear / Northrop Frye; title: Inextricable ruthlessness and ruth: king Lear / C. L. Barber and Richard P. Wheeler; title: Creative uncreation in King Lear / James Calderwood; title: The essential landscape of King Lear / Arthur Kirsch; title: "Is this the promised end?" death and dying in King Lear / David Bevington; title: "We came crying hither": King Lear / Maynard Mack; title: King Lear: the tragic disjunction of wisdom and power / Paul Cantor; title: Lear's system / Ralph Berry; title: King Lear / Frank Kermode; title: Lear's three shamings / Robert Lanier Reid; title: Naked Lear / Millicent Bell; title: Performance and text: King Lear / R. A. Foakes.