King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare's most intense, profound and powerful tragedy.
An edition of King Lear
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King Lear
text, sources, criticism
by William Shakespeare
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King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and Lear, all his daughters and more, die.
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The tragedy of King Lear
2012, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company
in English
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Pt. 1.
The tragedy of King Lear -- by -- William Shakespeare. -- Pt. 2. Sources. from
The mirror for magistrates, -- 1574 / -- John Higgins ; -- from
The chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, -- 1577 / -- Raphael Holinshed ; -- from
The faerie queene, -- 1590 / -- Edmund Spenser ; -- from
Arcadia, -- 1590 / -- Philip Sidney ;
The true chronicle history of King Lear, -- 1605. -- Pt. 3. from
The history of King Lear -- by -- Nahum Tate. -- Pt. 4. Criticism. from
The plays of William Shakespeare, -- 1765 / -- Samuel Johnson ; -- from
"On the tragedies of Shakespeare," -- 1811 / -- Charles Lamb ; -- from
Characters of Shakespeare's plays, -- 1817 / -- William Hazlitt ; -- from notes on
King Lear, -- 1849 / -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; -- from
Shakespeare: a critical study of his mind and art, -- 1875 / -- Edward Dowden ; -- from
Shakespearean tragedy, -- 1904 / -- A. C. Bradley ; -- from
Tolstoy on Shakespeare, -- 1906 / -- Leo Tolstoy ; -- from
Prefaces to Shakespeare, -- 1927 / -- Harley Granville-Barker ; -- from
The wheel of fire, -- 1930 / -- G. Wilson Knight ; -- from
Art and artifice in Shakespeare, -- 1933 / -- E. E. Stoll ; -- from
Shakespeare and the nature of man, -- 1942 / -- Theodore Spencer ;
"The symphonic form of King Lear," -- 1945 / -- George R. Kernodle ; -- from
This great stage: image and structure in King Lear, -- 1948 / -- Robert B. Heilman ; -- from
A poet's notebook, -- 1950 / -- Edith Sitwell ; -- from
The development of Shakespeare's imagery, -- 1951 / -- W. H. Clemen ; -- from
The dream of learning, -- 1951 / -- D. G. James ; -- from
Shakespeare's tragedies, -- 1951 / -- G. B. Harrison ;
"The catharsis of King Lear,"-- 1960 /-- J. Stampfer.-- Questions and problems.-- A reading list for King Lear.
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Bibliography: p. 184-186.
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