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USDThis latest hardback volume in the Shakespeare Survey yearbook presents new material on King Lear.
Reviews & endorsements
"As a collection, these essays group together several different ways of looking at the play without relying on a conception of a pure original, offering a strategy for analyzing how a text accrues meanings and how those meanings are transformed over time even as they are related to some, however hypothetical, original." Essays in Theatre Jennifer Feather, Brown University
"a very attractive and useful volume in the series begun over half a century ago." - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Jay L. Halio
Product details
March 2008Paperback
9780521049986
424 pages
235 × 190 × 18 mm
0.639kg
19 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1. King Lear: A retrospect, 1980–2000 Kiernan Ryan
- 2. How Shakespeare knew King Leir Richard Knowles
- 3. Contracts of love and affection: Lear, old age, and kingship William O. Scott
- 4. Headgear as a paralinguistic signifier in King Lear Andrew Gurr
- 5. What becomes of the broken-hearted: King Lear and the dissociation of sensibility Drew Milne
- 6. Lear's afterlife John J. Joughin
- 7. Songs of madness: the lyric afterlife of Shakespeare's poor Tom William C. Carroll
- 8. Secularizing King Lear: Shakespeare, Tate, and the sacred Peter Womack
- 9. 'Look on her, look': the apotheosis of Cordelia Janet Bottoms
- 10. Jacob Gordin's Mirele Efros: King Lear as Jewish mother Iska Alter
- 11. 'How fine a play was Mrs Lear': the case for Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife Richard Foulkes
- 12. Some Lears Richard Proudfoot
- 13. King Lear and Endgame R. A. Foakes
- 14. Shakespeare in pain: Edward Bond's Lear and the ghosts of history Thomas Cartelli
- 15. 'Think about Shakespeare': King Lear on pacific cliffs Mark Houlahan
- 16. Actors, editors, and the annotation of Shakespeare playscripts Michael Cordner
- 17. Titus Andronicus: the Classical presence Niall Rudd
- 18. Julius Caesar, Machiavelli, and the uses of history Robin Headlam Wells
- 19. Scepticism and theatre in Macbeth Kent Cartwright
- 20. Revels end, and the gentle body starts Simon Shepherd
- 21. 'Taking just care of the impression': editorial intervention in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685 Sonia Massai
- 22. 'A world elsewhere': Shakespeare in South Africa Jonathan Holmes
- 23. Shakespeare performances in England, 2001 Michael Dobson
- 24. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2000 Niky Rathbone
- The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies:
- 25. Critical studies reviewed by Edward Pechter
- 26. Shakespeare's life, times, and stage reviewed by Leslie Thomson
- 27. Editions and textual studies (1) reviewed by Eric Rasmussen
- 28. Editions and textual studies (2) reviewed by John Jowett
- Books received
- Index.
