Some Facets of King Lear : : Essays in Prismatic Criticism / / ed. by Rosalie Colie, F.T. Flahiff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Andresen, Martha,; Blissett, W. F.,; Charney, Maurice,; Colie, Rosalie L.,; Flahiff, F. T.,; Golie, Rosalie L.,; Hoeniger, F. D.,; Laan, Thomas F. Van,; Lindheim, Nancy R.,; Lyon, Bridget Gellert,; Reibetanz, John,; Zitner, Sheldon P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Colie, Rosalie,; Flahiff, F.T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis. The essays in this book – forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' – were written because their authors wanted to understand something specific about this very complicated play. Throughout, the emphasis is on Shakespeare's consciousness of his craft, on his critical use of the materials, notions, and devices available to him – on the play (prism-like) as an instrument of analysis. Although the different contributors have occasionally influenced one another's readings of the play, the essays were written independently; that they are so mutually supportive is the result of the play's central insistence on its own primary meaning, visible from whatever perspective a serious reader may take.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. King Lear and Its language -- Two. The Subplot as Simplification in King Lear -- Three. Theatrical Emblems in King Lear -- Four. Acting as Action in King Lear -- Five. We Put Fresh Garments on Him′: Nakedness and Clothes in King Lear -- Six. The Artist Exploring the Primitive: King Lear -- Seven. Recognition in King Lear -- Eight. The Energies of Endurance : Biblical Echo in King Lear -- Nine. ‘Ripeness is All’: Sententiae and Common - places in King Lear -- Ten. King Lear as Pastoral Tragedy -- Eleven. Reason and Need : King Lear and the ‘Crisis’ of the Aristocracy -- Twelve. Edgar: Once and Future King -- Afterword -- Contributors