Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 530 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350128439
Series Statement:
Shakespeare: the critical tradition
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- General editor's preface -- General editors' preface to the revised series -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: George Chalmers, on the date of King Lear: 1799 -- Chapter 2: Germaine de Staël, on King Lear and English national character: 1803 -- Chapter 3: Francis Douce, on the Fool in King Lear: 1807 -- Chapter 4: Leigh Hunt, on the superiority of the original King Lear to Tate's adaptation: 1808 -- Chapter 5: Edmond Malone, commentary on King Lear: c. 1812 -- Chapter 6: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commentary on King Lear: 1813 -- Chapter 7: August Wilhelm von Schlegel, on the intensity of King Lear: 1815 -- Chapter 8: Nathan Drake, commentary on King Lear: 1817 -- Chapter 9: William Hazlitt, on King Lear as Shakespeare's best play: 1817 -- Chapter 10: Charles Lamb, on King Lear as unactable: 1818 -- Chapter 11: John Keats, on the intensity of King Lear: 1818 -- Chapter 12: George Hardinge, on the Fool: 1818 -- Chapter 13: Leigh Hunt, on King Lear as unactable: 1820 -- Chapter 14: Percy Bysshe Shelley, on the mingling of tones in King Lear: 1821 -- Chapter 15: Franz Horn, commentary on King Lear: 1823 -- Chapter 16: George Farren, on madness in King Lear: 1826 -- Chapter 17: Augustine Skottowe, on King Lear and its sources: 1824 -- Chapter 18: William Hazlitt, on King Lear's timelessness and universality: 1826 -- Chapter 19: Anna Brownell Jameson, praise for Cordelia: 1832 -- Chapter 20: Ernst Schick, praise for the Fool: 1833 -- Chapter 21: Heinrich Heine, praise for Cordelia: 1838 -- Chapter 22: Henry Hallam, on the brilliance of King Lear: 1839 -- Chapter 23: Hermann Ulrici, on the morality of King Lear: 1839 -- Chapter 24: Henry Norman Hudson, on the heathen setting: 1848.
Content:
"This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Following an introduction which provides an historical account of the play's critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the volume presents a selection of original documents, together with contextual head notes and biographical sketches of the authors and a rationale for their selection, as well as a list of suggested further reading. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350128415
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe King Lear London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2023 ISBN 9781350128415
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
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