King Lear

By: Harold Bloom (Editor), Neil Heims (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 December 2008

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Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

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Series Introduction	p. ix
Volume Introduction	p. xi
Biography of William Shakespeare	p. 1
Summary of King Lear	p. 5
Key Passages in King Lear	p. 23
List of Characters in King Lear	p. 49
Criticism through the Ages	p. 51
King Lear in the Seventeenth Century	p. 53
1681-Nahum Tate. From The History of King Lear	p. 54
1699-James Drake. From The Antient and Modern Stages Surveyed	p. 71
King Lear in the Eighteenth Century	p. 73
1710-Charles Gildon. From Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear	p. 74
1715-Lewis Theobald. "Remarks on King Lear," from The Censor	p. 75
1735-Aaron Hill. From The Prompter	p. 79
1753-Joseph Warton. From The Adventurer	p. 83
1768-Samuel Johnson. From Notes on Shakespear's Plays	p. 93
1775-Elizabeth Griffith. "Lear," from The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated	p. 95
1784-William Richardson. "On the Dramatic Character of King Lear," from Essays on Some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters	p. 96
King Lear in the Nineteenth Century	p. 99
1809-August Wilhelm Schlegel. "Criticisms on Shakspeare's Tragedies," from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature	p. 100
1812-Charles Lamb. "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare," from The Reflector	p. 103
1817-William Hazlitt. "Lear," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays	p. 104
1818-Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Lear," from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets	p. 110
1818-John Keats. "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again"	p. 115
1833-Anna Jameson. "Cordelia," from Shakspeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, & Historical	p. 115
1838-Charles Dickens. "The Restoration of Shakespeare's Lear to the Stage," from The Examiner	p. 116
1864-Victor Hugo. William Shakespeare	p. 119
1875-Edward Dowden. "Lear," from Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art	p. 122
1880-Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Study of Shakespeare	p. 134
1883-Alfred Lord Tennyson. Some Criticisms on Poets, Memoir by His Son	p. 137
King Lear in the Twentieth Century	p. 139
1904-A. C. Bradley. "King Lear," from Shakespearean Tragedy	p. 141
1906-Leo Tolstoy. "On Shakespeare"	p. 156
1913-Sigmund Freud. "The Theme of the Three Caskets," from Imago	p. 163
1920-Alexander Blok. "Shakespeare's King Lear: An Address to the Actors"	p. 164
1930-G. Wilson Knight. "The Lear Universe," from The Wheel of Fire	p. 169
1947-George Orwell. "Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool," from Polemic	p. 195
1949-John F. Danby. "Cordelia as Nature," from Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature: A Study of King Lear	p. 200
1951-Harold C. Goddard. "King Lear," from The Meaning of Shakespeare	p. 213
1966-William R. Elton. "Deus Absconditus: Lear," from King Lear and the Gods	p. 246
1974-Joyce Carol Oates. "'Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy of King Lear," from Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	p. 270
1986-Northrop Frye. "King Lear," from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare	p. 288
1988-Harold Bloom. "Introduction," from King Lear (Modern Critical Interpretations)	p. 304
1992-Harold Bloom. "Introduction," from King Lear (Major Literary Characters)	p. 311
King Lear in the Twenty-first Century	p. 321
2004-Sean Lawrence. "'Gods That We Adore': The Divine in King Lear," from Renascence	p. 321
Works Cited	p. 337
Bibliography	p. 341
Acknowledgments	p. 343
Index	p. 345
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