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183 - Iconic Characters: Lear

from Part XVIII - Shakespeare and Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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absolutismfamily tieshubrisinitiation ritesjusticemadnessmad Tomnew eraold agepovertypowersocial responsibility
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1334 - 1336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Nowottny, Winifred M. T. “Lear’s Questions.” Aspects of King Lear. Ed. Muir, Kenneth and Wells, Stanley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 35–44.Google Scholar

Further reading

Belsey, Catherine. The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London: Methuen, 1985.Google Scholar
Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.Google Scholar
Heinemann, Margot. “Demystifying the Mystery of the State: King Lear and the World Upside Down.” Shakespeare Survey 44 (1992): 75–84.Google Scholar
McAlindon, Tom. “Tragedy, King Lear and the Politics of the Heart.” Shakespeare Survey 44 (1992): 85–90.Google Scholar
Muir, Kenneth, and Wells, Stanley, eds. Aspects of King Lear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Resende, Aimara. “Atravessando Esse Grande Palco de Loucos: Desrazão, Cultura Popular e Formação de Identidades em O Rei Lear.” Performances: estudos de literatura em homenagem a Marlene Soares dos Santos. Ed. da Motta Lopes, Luiz Paulo, Durão, Fábio Accelrud, and da Rocha, Roberto Ferreira. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa, 2007. 53–77.Google Scholar

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