King Lear
Subtitle: text, sources, criticism
By: [by] G. B. Harrison [and] Robert F. McDonnell
Contributors: Harrison, G. B. (George Bagshawe), 1894-1991, ed; McDonnell, Robert Francis, ed
Series: Harbrace sourcebooks
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Drama; Kings and rulers; Fathers and daughters; Aging parents; Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature; Inheritance and succession; Britons; King Lear (Legendary character)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 184-186.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: The tragedy of King Lear  -- by -- William Shakespeare. -- Pt. 2. Sources.  from; title: The mirror for magistrates, -- 1574 / -- John Higgins ; -- from; title: The chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, -- 1577 / -- Raphael Holinshed ; -- from; title: The faerie queene, -- 1590 / -- Edmund Spenser ; -- from; title: Arcadia, -- 1590 / -- Philip Sidney ;; title: The true chronicle history of King Lear, -- 1605. -- Pt. 3. from; title: The history of King Lear  -- by -- Nahum Tate. -- Pt. 4. Criticism.  from; title: The plays of William Shakespeare, -- 1765 / -- Samuel Johnson ; -- from; title: "On the tragedies of Shakespeare," -- 1811 / -- Charles Lamb ; -- from; title: Characters of Shakespeare's plays, -- 1817 / -- William Hazlitt ; -- from notes on; title: King Lear, -- 1849 / -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; -- from; title: Shakespeare: a critical study of his mind and art, -- 1875 / -- Edward Dowden ; -- from; title: Shakespearean tragedy, -- 1904 / -- A. C. Bradley ; -- from; title: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, -- 1906 / -- Leo Tolstoy ; -- from; title: Prefaces to Shakespeare, -- 1927 / -- Harley Granville-Barker ; -- from; title: The wheel of fire, -- 1930 / -- G. Wilson Knight ; -- from; title: Art and artifice in Shakespeare, -- 1933 / -- E. E. Stoll ; -- from; title: Shakespeare and the nature of man, -- 1942 / -- Theodore Spencer ;; title: "The symphonic form of King Lear," -- 1945 / -- George R. Kernodle ; -- from; title: This great stage: image and structure in King Lear, -- 1948 / -- Robert B. Heilman ; -- from; title: A poet's notebook, -- 1950 / -- Edith Sitwell ; -- from; title: The development of Shakespeare's imagery, -- 1951 / -- W. H. Clemen ; -- from; title: The dream of learning, -- 1951 / -- D. G. James ; -- from; title: Shakespeare's tragedies, -- 1951 / -- G. B. Harrison ;; title: "The catharsis of King Lear,"-- 1960 /-- J. Stampfer.-- Questions and problems.-- A reading list for King Lear.