King Lear
King Lear
Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
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ISBN: 9788130933887
Bind: Paperback
Year: 2016
Pages: 370
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Publisher: Facts On File Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Description:
King Lear occupies a special place in the Shakespearean canon. Lear's descent into madness, the central event of this play, illustrates the extent to which humanity can be degraded by its errors. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on King Lear, including commentaries by such important writers as John Keats, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume, including an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of several key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare's time, and more.
Each volume in the Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages contains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard's oeuvre, selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar, Harold Bloom. Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare, these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism, from the 17th century to today. In the process, each volume also charts the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work.
This essential set is unique not only in the range of commentary it provides on each of Shakespeare's greatest works, but also in its emphasis on the greatest critics in our literary tradition - including such critics as John Dryden in the 17th century, Samuel Johnson in the 18th century, William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 19th century, A. C. Bradley and William Empson in the 20th century, and many more. Some of the pieces included are full-length essays; others are excerpts designed to present a key point.
Target Audience:
Students and academics of English Literature.
Contents:
Series Introduction • Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom • Biography of William Shakespeare • Summary of King Lear • Key Passages in King Lear • List of Characters in King Lear
CRITICISM THROUGH THE AGES
King Lear in the Seventeenth Century • 1681—Nahum Tate. From The History of King Lear • 1699—James Drake. From The Antient and Modern Stages Surveyed
King Lear in the Eighteenth Century • 1710—Charles Gildon. From Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear • 1715— Lewis Theobald. “Remarks on King Lear,” from The Censor • 173S—Aaron Hill. From The Prompter • 1735—Joseph Warton. From The Adventurer • 1768—Samuel Johnson. From Notes on Shakespear's Plays • 1775—Elizabeth Griffith. “Lear,” from The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated • 1784—William Richardson. “On the Dramatic Character of King Lear,” from Essays on Some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters
King Lear in the Nineteenth Century • 1809—August Wilhelm Schlegel. “Criticisms on Shakspeare's • Tragedies,” from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • 1812—Charles Lamb. “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare,” from the Reflector • 1817—William Hazlitt. “Lear,” from Characters of Shakespear's Plays • 1818—Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “Lear,” from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets • 1818—John Keats. “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” • 1833—Anna Jameson. “Cordelia,” from Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, & Historical • 1838—Charles Dickens. “The Restoration of Shakespeare's Lear to the Stage,” from the Examiner • 1864—Victor Hugo. William Shakespeare • 1875—Edward Dowden. “Lear, • from Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art • 1880—Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Study of Shakespeare • 1883—Alfred Lord Tennyson. Some Criticisms on Poets, Memoir by His Son
King Lear in the Twentieth Century • 1904—A. C. Bradley. “King Lear,” from Shakespearean Tragedy • 1906—Leo Tolstoy. “On Shakespeare” • 1913—Sigmund Freud. “The Theme of the Three Caskets,” from Imago • 1920—Alexander Blok. “Shakespeare's King Lear. An Address to the Actors” • 1930—G. Wilson Knight. “The Lear Universe,” from The Wheel of Fire • 1947—George Orwell. “Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool,” from Polemic • 1949—John F. Danby. “Cordelia as Nature,” from Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature: A Study of King Lear • 1951—Harold C. Goddard. “King Lear,” from The Meaning of Shakespeare • 1966—William R. EIton. “Deus Absconditus: Lear,” from King Lear and the Gods • 1974—Joyce Carol Oates. ““Is This the Promised End”“ The Tragedy of King Lear,” from Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism • 1986—Northrop Frye. “King Lear,” from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare • 1988—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from King Lear (Modem Critical Interpretations) • 1992—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from King Lear (Major Literary Characters)
King Lear in the Twenty-first Century • 2004——Sean Lawrence. ““Gods That We Adore”: • The Divine in King Lear,” from Renascence
Works Cited • Bibliography • Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors:
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973),A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found” (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters” Gold Medal for Criticism.
