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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 55, King Lear and Its Afterlife - An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme! or play! or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of criticism and performance. For the first time! numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. King Lear: A retrospect, 1980-2000 Kiernan Ryan; 2. How Shakespeare knew King Leir Richard Knowles; 3. Contracts of love and affection: Lear, old age, and kingship William O. Scott; 4. Headgear as a paralinguistic signifier in King Lear Andrew Gurr; 5. What becomes of the broken-hearted: King Lear and the dissociation of sensibility Drew Milne; 6. Lear's afterlife John J. Joughin; 7. Songs of madness: the lyric afterlife of Shakespeare's poor Tom William C. Carroll; 8. Secularizing King Lear: Shakespeare, Tate, and the sacred Peter Womack; 9. 'Look on her, look': the apotheosis of Cordelia Janet Bottoms; 10. Jacob Gordin's Mirele Efros: King Lear as Jewish mother Iska Alter; 11. 'How fine a play was Mrs Lear': the case for Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife Richard Foulkes; 12. Some Lears Richard Proudfoot; 13. King Lear and Endgame R. A. Foakes; 14. Shakespeare in pain: Edward Bond's Lear and the ghosts of history Thomas Cartelli; 15. 'Think about Shakespeare': King Lear on pacific cliffs Mark Houlahan; 16. Actors, editors, and the annotation of Shakespeare playscripts Michael Cordner; 17. Titus Andronicus: the Classical presence Niall Rudd; 18. Julius Caesar, Machiavelli, and the uses of history Robin Headlam Wells; 19. Scepticism and theatre in Macbeth Kent Cartwright; 20. Revels end, and the gentle body starts Simon Shepherd; 21. 'Taking just care of the impression': editorial intervention in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685 Sonia Massai; 22. 'A world elsewhere': Shakespeare in South Africa Jonathan Holmes; 23. Shakespeare performances in England, 2001 Michael Dobson; 24. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2000 Niky Rathbone; The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 25. Critical studies reviewed by Edward Pechter; 26. Shakespeare's life, times, and stage reviewed by Leslie Thomson; 27. Editions and textual studies (1) reviewed by Eric Rasmussen; 28. Editions and textual studies (2) reviewed by John Jowett; Books received; Index....

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Authors Peter Holland, Peter (Shakespeare Institute Holland
Assisted by Peter Holland (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2008
 
EAN 9780521049986
ISBN 978-0-521-04998-6
No. of pages 424
Series Shakespeare Survey (Paperback)
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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