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Summary: Central to university and school studies, King Lear is the prime example of tragedy in the Shakespeare canon. This sourcebook discusses and examines King Lear within its cultural and literary contexts

Language: eng

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London, Routledge, 2003

Extent: xiv, 192 p.

Note: "This volume first published as A Routledge literary sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear" -- t.p. verso

Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction.
p. 1
1.
Contexts
Contextual Overview.
p. 9
General Note.
p. 14
Chronology.
p. 15
Sources of King Lear.
p. 19
Primary Sources.
p. 19
From Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1135).
p. 19
From Raphael Holinshed, The Historie of England (1587).
p. 23
From Anonymous, The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir and his three daughters (1605).
p. 25
Secondary Sources.
p. 32
From John Higgins, The First Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates (1574).
p. 32
From Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1596).
p. 36
From Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590).
p. 38
From Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603).
p. 40
From James I, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598).
p. 40
From James I, Basilikon Doron (1603).
p. 41
2.
Interpretations
Critical History.
p. 45
Early Critical Reception.
p. 48
From Charles Gildon, 'Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear' (1710).
p. 48
From Lewis Theobald, Notes on King Lear (1733).
p. 48
From Samuel Johnson, Notes on King Lear (1765).
p. 49
From Charles Lamb, 'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare' (1810).
p. 50
From William Hazlitt, 'Characters of Shakespear's Plays: King Lear' (1817).
p. 51
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Records of his Lecture on King Lear (1819).
p. 53
John Keats, 'On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again' (1818).
p. 53
Modern Criticism.
p. 55
From A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1904).
p. 55
From Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1967).
p. 56
From Peter Brook, The Empty Space (1968).
p. 58
From R. A. Foakes, Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art (1993).
p. 59
From Kathleen McLuskie, 'The Patriarchal Bard' (1985).
p. 60
From Coppelia Kahn, 'The Absent Mother in King Lear' (1986).
p. 62
From Michael Warren, 'General Introduction', William Shakespeare: The Complete King Lear 1608-1623 (1989).
p. 64
From Terence Hawkes, William Shakespeare: King Lear (1995).
p. 65
Work in Performance.
p. 67
King Lear on Stage.
p. 67
King Lear on Screen.
p. 70
1681-1834: Tate's King Lear in Performance.
p. 75
From Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681).
p. 75
From Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784).
p. 76
From Elizabeth Inchbald, Comments on King Lear; a Tragedy in Five Acts (1807).
p. 77
From George Daniel, King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by William Shakespeare (1830).
p. 78
Nineteenth Century: The Return of Shakespeare's King Lear to the Stage.
p. 79
From [William] Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters (1876).
p. 79
Henry Irving, Preface to King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1892).
p. 81
Modern Performance: Traditional and Radical King Lear.
p. 81
From Harley Granville-Barker, Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927).
p. 81
From John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (1981).
p. 82
From Ivor Brown, 'The Old Vic King Lear' (1946).
p. 84
From Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (2000).
p. 85
From Dennis Kennedy, 'King Lear and the Theatre' (1976).
p. 85
From Grigori Kozintsev, King Lear: The Space of Tragedy. The Diary of a Film Director (1973).
p. 88
From Edward Bond, Lear (1971).
p. 89
From Antony Sher, Beside Myself: An Autobiography (2001).
p. 90
From Alastair Macaulay, Review of the Royal National Theatre's production of King Lear (1997).
p. 92
3.
Key Passages
Introduction.
p. 95
Note on the Text.
p. 95
Note on the Key Passages.
p. 96
Synopsis of the Play.
p. 96
List of Key Passages.
p. 98
Key Passages.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests the love of his daughters.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests Cordelia.
p. 105
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear bargains with Cordelia's suitors.
p. 110
Act 1, Scene 1: Cordelia confronts Goneril and Regan.
p. 113
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Gloucester.
p. 115
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Edgar.
p. 119
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear meets the disguised Kent.
p. 121
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear is reunited with the Fool.
p. 123
Act 1, Scene 4: Goneril confronts Lear.
p. 126
Act 2, Scene 2: Kent insults Oswald and is stocked.
p. 129
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear finds Kent in the stocks.
p. 133
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear confronts Regan and Cornwall.
p. 135
Act 2, Scene 2: Goneril and Regan reject Lear.
p. 137
Act 3, Scene 2: Lear goes mad on the health.
p. 141
Act 3, Scene 4: Lear meets Tom of Bedlam.
p. 144
Act 3, Scene 6: Lear's mock-trial of Goneril and Regan.
p. 147
Act 3, Scene 7: Gloucester's blinding.
p. 149
Act 4, Scene 1: Edgar finds his father.
p. 154
Act 4, Scene 2: Albany confronts Goneril.
p. 157
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar reach Dover.
p. 158
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar find Lear.
p. 162
Act 4, Scene 7: Lear is reunited with Cordelia.
p. 165
Act 5, Scene 3: Lear and Cordelia are imprisoned.
p. 168
Act 5, Scene 3: The death of Edmund, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia and Lear.
p. 173
4.
Further Reading
Introduction.
p. 183
Recommended Editions of King Lear.
p. 183
Recommended Book-length Studies of King Lear.
p. 184
General studies of the play.
p. 184
On the play in performance.
p. 185
On textual matters including authorial revision and printing history.
p. 185
Further References.
p. 186
Index.
p. 189

Isbn: 9780415234726

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Label: William Shakespeare's King Lear : a sourcebook

Title: William Shakespeare's King Lear

Title remainder: a sourcebook

Statement of responsibility: edited by Grace Ioppolo

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Language: eng

Summary: Central to university and school studies, King Lear is the prime example of tragedy in the Shakespeare canon. This sourcebook discusses and examines King Lear within its cultural and literary contexts

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Index: index present

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http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate: 1956-

http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName: Ioppolo, Grace

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Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature
Tragedy
Shakespeare, William
Lear

Label: William Shakespeare's King Lear : a sourcebook, edited by Grace Ioppolo

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William Shakespeare's King Lear : a sourcebook

Publication

London, Routledge, 2003

Note: "This volume first published as A Routledge literary sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear" -- t.p. verso

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: volume

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Content category: text

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction.
p. 1
1.
Contexts
Contextual Overview.
p. 9
General Note.
p. 14
Chronology.
p. 15
Sources of King Lear.
p. 19
Primary Sources.
p. 19
From Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1135).
p. 19
From Raphael Holinshed, The Historie of England (1587).
p. 23
From Anonymous, The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir and his three daughters (1605).
p. 25
Secondary Sources.
p. 32
From John Higgins, The First Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates (1574).
p. 32
From Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1596).
p. 36
From Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590).
p. 38
From Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603).
p. 40
From James I, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598).
p. 40
From James I, Basilikon Doron (1603).
p. 41
2.
Interpretations
Critical History.
p. 45
Early Critical Reception.
p. 48
From Charles Gildon, 'Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear' (1710).
p. 48
From Lewis Theobald, Notes on King Lear (1733).
p. 48
From Samuel Johnson, Notes on King Lear (1765).
p. 49
From Charles Lamb, 'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare' (1810).
p. 50
From William Hazlitt, 'Characters of Shakespear's Plays: King Lear' (1817).
p. 51
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Records of his Lecture on King Lear (1819).
p. 53
John Keats, 'On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again' (1818).
p. 53
Modern Criticism.
p. 55
From A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1904).
p. 55
From Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1967).
p. 56
From Peter Brook, The Empty Space (1968).
p. 58
From R. A. Foakes, Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art (1993).
p. 59
From Kathleen McLuskie, 'The Patriarchal Bard' (1985).
p. 60
From Coppelia Kahn, 'The Absent Mother in King Lear' (1986).
p. 62
From Michael Warren, 'General Introduction', William Shakespeare: The Complete King Lear 1608-1623 (1989).
p. 64
From Terence Hawkes, William Shakespeare: King Lear (1995).
p. 65
Work in Performance.
p. 67
King Lear on Stage.
p. 67
King Lear on Screen.
p. 70
1681-1834: Tate's King Lear in Performance.
p. 75
From Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681).
p. 75
From Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784).
p. 76
From Elizabeth Inchbald, Comments on King Lear; a Tragedy in Five Acts (1807).
p. 77
From George Daniel, King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by William Shakespeare (1830).
p. 78
Nineteenth Century: The Return of Shakespeare's King Lear to the Stage.
p. 79
From [William] Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters (1876).
p. 79
Henry Irving, Preface to King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1892).
p. 81
Modern Performance: Traditional and Radical King Lear.
p. 81
From Harley Granville-Barker, Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927).
p. 81
From John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (1981).
p. 82
From Ivor Brown, 'The Old Vic King Lear' (1946).
p. 84
From Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (2000).
p. 85
From Dennis Kennedy, 'King Lear and the Theatre' (1976).
p. 85
From Grigori Kozintsev, King Lear: The Space of Tragedy. The Diary of a Film Director (1973).
p. 88
From Edward Bond, Lear (1971).
p. 89
From Antony Sher, Beside Myself: An Autobiography (2001).
p. 90
From Alastair Macaulay, Review of the Royal National Theatre's production of King Lear (1997).
p. 92
3.
Key Passages
Introduction.
p. 95
Note on the Text.
p. 95
Note on the Key Passages.
p. 96
Synopsis of the Play.
p. 96
List of Key Passages.
p. 98
Key Passages.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests the love of his daughters.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests Cordelia.
p. 105
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear bargains with Cordelia's suitors.
p. 110
Act 1, Scene 1: Cordelia confronts Goneril and Regan.
p. 113
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Gloucester.
p. 115
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Edgar.
p. 119
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear meets the disguised Kent.
p. 121
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear is reunited with the Fool.
p. 123
Act 1, Scene 4: Goneril confronts Lear.
p. 126
Act 2, Scene 2: Kent insults Oswald and is stocked.
p. 129
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear finds Kent in the stocks.
p. 133
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear confronts Regan and Cornwall.
p. 135
Act 2, Scene 2: Goneril and Regan reject Lear.
p. 137
Act 3, Scene 2: Lear goes mad on the health.
p. 141
Act 3, Scene 4: Lear meets Tom of Bedlam.
p. 144
Act 3, Scene 6: Lear's mock-trial of Goneril and Regan.
p. 147
Act 3, Scene 7: Gloucester's blinding.
p. 149
Act 4, Scene 1: Edgar finds his father.
p. 154
Act 4, Scene 2: Albany confronts Goneril.
p. 157
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar reach Dover.
p. 158
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar find Lear.
p. 162
Act 4, Scene 7: Lear is reunited with Cordelia.
p. 165
Act 5, Scene 3: Lear and Cordelia are imprisoned.
p. 168
Act 5, Scene 3: The death of Edmund, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia and Lear.
p. 173
4.
Further Reading
Introduction.
p. 183
Recommended Editions of King Lear.
p. 183
Recommended Book-length Studies of King Lear.
p. 184
General studies of the play.
p. 184
On the play in performance.
p. 185
On textual matters including authorial revision and printing history.
p. 185
Further References.
p. 186
Index.
p. 189

Control code: ocm58840562

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Extent: xiv, 192 p.

Isbn: 9780415234726

Lccn: 2002153225

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Label: William Shakespeare's King Lear : a sourcebook, edited by Grace Ioppolo

Publication

London, Routledge, 2003

Note: "This volume first published as A Routledge literary sourcebook on William Shakespeare's King Lear" -- t.p. verso

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction.
p. 1
1.
Contexts
Contextual Overview.
p. 9
General Note.
p. 14
Chronology.
p. 15
Sources of King Lear.
p. 19
Primary Sources.
p. 19
From Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1135).
p. 19
From Raphael Holinshed, The Historie of England (1587).
p. 23
From Anonymous, The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir and his three daughters (1605).
p. 25
Secondary Sources.
p. 32
From John Higgins, The First Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates (1574).
p. 32
From Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1596).
p. 36
From Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590).
p. 38
From Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603).
p. 40
From James I, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598).
p. 40
From James I, Basilikon Doron (1603).
p. 41
2.
Interpretations
Critical History.
p. 45
Early Critical Reception.
p. 48
From Charles Gildon, 'Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear' (1710).
p. 48
From Lewis Theobald, Notes on King Lear (1733).
p. 48
From Samuel Johnson, Notes on King Lear (1765).
p. 49
From Charles Lamb, 'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare' (1810).
p. 50
From William Hazlitt, 'Characters of Shakespear's Plays: King Lear' (1817).
p. 51
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Records of his Lecture on King Lear (1819).
p. 53
John Keats, 'On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again' (1818).
p. 53
Modern Criticism.
p. 55
From A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1904).
p. 55
From Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1967).
p. 56
From Peter Brook, The Empty Space (1968).
p. 58
From R. A. Foakes, Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art (1993).
p. 59
From Kathleen McLuskie, 'The Patriarchal Bard' (1985).
p. 60
From Coppelia Kahn, 'The Absent Mother in King Lear' (1986).
p. 62
From Michael Warren, 'General Introduction', William Shakespeare: The Complete King Lear 1608-1623 (1989).
p. 64
From Terence Hawkes, William Shakespeare: King Lear (1995).
p. 65
Work in Performance.
p. 67
King Lear on Stage.
p. 67
King Lear on Screen.
p. 70
1681-1834: Tate's King Lear in Performance.
p. 75
From Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681).
p. 75
From Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784).
p. 76
From Elizabeth Inchbald, Comments on King Lear; a Tragedy in Five Acts (1807).
p. 77
From George Daniel, King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by William Shakespeare (1830).
p. 78
Nineteenth Century: The Return of Shakespeare's King Lear to the Stage.
p. 79
From [William] Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters (1876).
p. 79
Henry Irving, Preface to King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1892).
p. 81
Modern Performance: Traditional and Radical King Lear.
p. 81
From Harley Granville-Barker, Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927).
p. 81
From John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (1981).
p. 82
From Ivor Brown, 'The Old Vic King Lear' (1946).
p. 84
From Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (2000).
p. 85
From Dennis Kennedy, 'King Lear and the Theatre' (1976).
p. 85
From Grigori Kozintsev, King Lear: The Space of Tragedy. The Diary of a Film Director (1973).
p. 88
From Edward Bond, Lear (1971).
p. 89
From Antony Sher, Beside Myself: An Autobiography (2001).
p. 90
From Alastair Macaulay, Review of the Royal National Theatre's production of King Lear (1997).
p. 92
3.
Key Passages
Introduction.
p. 95
Note on the Text.
p. 95
Note on the Key Passages.
p. 96
Synopsis of the Play.
p. 96
List of Key Passages.
p. 98
Key Passages.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests the love of his daughters.
p. 102
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear tests Cordelia.
p. 105
Act 1, Scene 1: Lear bargains with Cordelia's suitors.
p. 110
Act 1, Scene 1: Cordelia confronts Goneril and Regan.
p. 113
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Gloucester.
p. 115
Act 1, Scene 2: Edmund deceives Edgar.
p. 119
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear meets the disguised Kent.
p. 121
Act 1, Scene 4: Lear is reunited with the Fool.
p. 123
Act 1, Scene 4: Goneril confronts Lear.
p. 126
Act 2, Scene 2: Kent insults Oswald and is stocked.
p. 129
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear finds Kent in the stocks.
p. 133
Act 2, Scene 2: Lear confronts Regan and Cornwall.
p. 135
Act 2, Scene 2: Goneril and Regan reject Lear.
p. 137
Act 3, Scene 2: Lear goes mad on the health.
p. 141
Act 3, Scene 4: Lear meets Tom of Bedlam.
p. 144
Act 3, Scene 6: Lear's mock-trial of Goneril and Regan.
p. 147
Act 3, Scene 7: Gloucester's blinding.
p. 149
Act 4, Scene 1: Edgar finds his father.
p. 154
Act 4, Scene 2: Albany confronts Goneril.
p. 157
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar reach Dover.
p. 158
Act 4, Scene 6: Gloucester and Edgar find Lear.
p. 162
Act 4, Scene 7: Lear is reunited with Cordelia.
p. 165
Act 5, Scene 3: Lear and Cordelia are imprisoned.
p. 168
Act 5, Scene 3: The death of Edmund, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia and Lear.
p. 173
4.
Further Reading
Introduction.
p. 183
Recommended Editions of King Lear.
p. 183
Recommended Book-length Studies of King Lear.
p. 184
General studies of the play.
p. 184
On the play in performance.
p. 185
On textual matters including authorial revision and printing history.
p. 185
Further References.
p. 186
Index.
p. 189

Control code: ocm58840562

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Extent: xiv, 192 p.

Isbn: 9780415234726

Lccn: 2002153225

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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