Aspects of King Lear
Aspects of King Lear
Kenneth Muir
Stanley Wells
Stanley Wells
November 1982
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This volume brings together nine essays on King Lear by distinguished scholars, all of which were first published in Shakespeare Survey, the leading journal devoted to Shakespeare studies. A retrospective survey of criticism from 1934 to the present is followed by studies of the play's style and discussion of its background, meaning and theatrical presentation. The volume is illustrated with photographs of post-war productions.
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November 1982Paperback
9780521288132
112 pages
229 × 152 × 59 mm
1.77kg
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Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- King Lear: A Retrospect, 1939–79 G. R. Hibbard
- Some aspects of the style of King Lear Winifred M. T. Nowottny
- Madness in King Lear Kenneth Muir
- Lear's questions Winifred M. T. Nowottny
- 'And that's true too': King Lear and the tension of uncertainty Derek Peat
- King Lear and Doomsday Mary Lascelles
- Lear's last speech J. K. Walton
- The catharsis of King Lear J. Stampfer
- Costume in King Lear W. Moelwyn Merchant.
