Hamlet versus Lear
Subtitle: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521607056
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Plays / Drama; English; Plays; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Drama / British & Irish; Drama-Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616--Criticism; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History
First sentence: The Romantic idealization of Shakespeare as a universal genius established him as a figure of enormous cultural authority, yet at the same time democratized him as a representative consciousness, available for each of us to interpret in his or her own way, untrammelled by scholarship, and regardless of social rank.