King Lear by Andrew Hiscock
This is a comprehensive critical guide to "King Lear", including critical and performance history, adaptation, new directions in research and an annotated bibliography. "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. "Continuum Renaissance Drama" offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.
This volume provides "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about the challenging experience of King LearThe 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 *
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 *
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441158963 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441158960 |
| Title | King Lear |
| Author | Andrew Hiscock |
| Series | Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2011-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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