King Lear
Subtitle: new critical essays
By: edited by Jeffrey Kahan
Series: Shakespeare criticism -- v. 33
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780415775267; 9780203090084
Description: "The issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Shakespeare's King Lear / Jeffrey Kahan; title: The reshaping of King Lear / R.A. Foakes; title: The evolution of the texts of Lear / Richard Knowles; title: King Lear and early seventeenth-century print culture / Cyndia Susan Clegg; title: "The injuries that they themselves procure" : justice poetic and pragmatic, and aspects of the endplay, in King Lear / Tom Clayton; title: What does Shakespeare leave out of King Lear? / Jean R. Brink; title: The cause of thunder : nature and justice in King Lear / Paul A. Cantor; title: Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law / R.V. Young; title: Lear in Kierkegaard / Stanley Stewart; title: The smell of mortality : performing torture in King Lear 3.7 / Edward L. Rocklin; title: Some Lears of private life, from Tate to Shaw / Christy Desmet; title: If only : alternatives and the self in King Lear / Jeffrey Kahan.