King Lear: A critical guide

by Andrew Hiscock (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (Editor)

Overview

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441158963
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/25/2011
Series:	Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK.

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at University of Sheffield Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare including her most recent work, Beginning Shakespeare (2005) and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic. She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
King Lear Timeline
Introduction
1. The Critical Backstory, Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough University, UK)
2. Performance History, Ramona Wray (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
3. The State of the Art, Philippa Kelly (University of New South Wales, Australia)
4. New Directions: Bowdlerizing and Borrowing: Finding Bits of Lear on the 19th and 20th Century Stage, Lori-Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate School, USA)
5. New Directions: 'The Promised End': King Lear and millenarian/utopian ideas in the early seventeenth century, Anthony Parr (University of Western Cape, SA)
6. New Directions: King Lear and Protestantism, John J. Norton (Concordia University, USA)
7. New Directions: King Lear as 'British' play, Willy Maley (University of Glasgow, UK)
8. Resources, Peter Sillitoe (De Montfort University, UK)
Notes on Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume provides "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about the challenging experience of King Lear. The coverage is compendious, the research up-to-date, and the essays rich with fresh insights.” —R. S. White, Professor of English, University of Western Australia, Australia

“This comprehensive approach makes King Lear: A Critical Guide a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates and those who teach them, as it suggests the multitude of reaction to King Lear over time, while also showing what can still be done within this vast tradition.” —William Rhodes, University of Virginia, Sixteenth Century Journal

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