Shakespeare Survey
An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production

Volume 55. King Lear and its Afterlife

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Editor: Peter Holland, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Kiernan Ryan, Richard Knowles, William O. Scott, Andrew Gurr, Drew Milne, John J. Joughin, William C. Carroll, Peter Womack, Janet Bottoms, Iska Alter, Richard Foulkes, Richard Proudfoot, R. A. Foakes, Thomas Cartelli, Mark Houlahan, Michael Cordner, Niall Rudd, Robin Headlam Wells, Kent Cartwright, Simon Shepherd, Sonia Massai, Jonathan Holmes, Michael Dobson, Niky Rathbone, Edward Pechter, Leslie Thomson, Eric Rasmussen, John Jowett

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Date Published: March 2008
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521049986

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This latest hardback volume in the Shakespeare Survey yearbook presents new material on King Lear.
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"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
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521049986
- length: 424 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 190 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.639kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus.
- availability: 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.
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Editor
Peter Holland, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Contributors
Kiernan Ryan, Richard Knowles, William O. Scott, Andrew Gurr, Drew Milne, John J. Joughin, William C. Carroll, Peter Womack, Janet Bottoms, Iska Alter, Richard Foulkes, Richard Proudfoot, R. A. Foakes, Thomas Cartelli, Mark Houlahan, Michael Cordner, Niall Rudd, Robin Headlam Wells, Kent Cartwright, Simon Shepherd, Sonia Massai, Jonathan Holmes, Michael Dobson, Niky Rathbone, Edward Pechter, Leslie Thomson, Eric Rasmussen, John Jowett