Some Facets of King Lear : : Essays in Prismatic Criticism /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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