Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of King Lear written by Janet Adelman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1978 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 15 critical essays and commentary on Shakespeare's King Lear.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Adaptations of King Lear written by Janet Ann Adelman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Criticism on King Lear written by L. J. Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transcending Chaos written by Georgia N. Rushing and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Lear in our Time written by Maynard Mack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition first published in 1966. Previous edition published 1965 by the University of California Press. Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost totally contradictory interpretations. In the first historical section of the book the author describes the varying concepts of the play and the distortions of text and even plot that have been widely used. Garrick's playing of Lear as a pathetic and down-trodden old man. Laughton's and Olivier's versions and Herbert Blaus's theory of the 'subtext' are described and analysed. The central section of the book examines the medieval, folk and romance sources of the play. The final chapter illustrates how the action of the play and its pervading violence and evil are not explained in terms of human motive and rely for their meaning more on their effects than their antecedents. An important theme is the play's examination of society and the ties of service and family love.
Download or read book The Grotesque written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of the grotesque in various works, such as Voltaire's "Candide," Shelley's "Frankenstein," "Gogol's "The Overcoat," and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Tempest written by Hallett Smith and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays of 16 Canadian, British, and American scholars present their interpretations of viewpoints of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Twelfth Night written by Walter N. King and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Variously described by critics as a vindication of romance, a comedy of humors, and a 'poem of escape,' Twelfth Night may well be Shakespeare's crowing achievement among his early comedies. The essays in this book provide a wide-ranging perspective on its delightful but puzzling plot, its masks and conflicts, its relationship to other works in Shakespeare's canon, and the mood and tone of its marvelous language. Including articles by such scholars as Clifford Leech, John Hollander, C.L. Barber, and Joseph H. Summers, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of a play one critic has called 'the most delightful, harmonious and accomplished of Shakespeare's romantic comedies.'" -Publisher.
Download or read book On King Lear The Confessions and Human Experience and Nature written by Kim Paffenroth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist with the author of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences between the thinking of these two figures on the themes of love, language, nature and reason. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see their worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.
Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Download or read book Some Major Themes of Shakespeare s King Lear as Seen by Twentieth Century Critics written by Velisa del Clark and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra written by Mark Rose and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical and expository essays on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of As You Like it written by Jay L. Halio and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tom Jones written by Mark Rose and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical and expository essays on Fielding's Tom Jones.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Julius Caesar written by Leonard Fellows Dean and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1968 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays and commentary on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Death of a Salesman written by Helene Koon and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays and commentary on Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman.
Download or read book King Lear Annotated Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. This fully annotated version of King Lear makesthe play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.
