King Lear : A Guide to the Play.

Cover -- KING LEAR -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES -- 1 TEXTUAL HISTORY -- THE TWO TEXTS OF "KING LEAR" -- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN QUARTO AND FOLIO KING LEAR -- THE TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXTS -- NOTES -- 2 CONTEXTS AND SOURCES -- THE PLACE OF KING LEAR IN THE SHAKESPEARE CANON -- THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- SOURCES AND ANALOGUES -- NOTES -- 3 DRAMATIC STRUCTURE -- NOTES -- 4 THEMES -- THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOMS -- BONDS BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD, CHILD AND PARENT -- THE BONDS BETWEEN MASTER AND SERVANT -- SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY -- NATURE -- REASON AND MADNESS -- NOTES -- 5 CRITICAL APPROACHES -- PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITICISM -- GENDER CRITICISM -- NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATERIALISM -- LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS -- MYTH AND ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM -- CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS -- NOTES -- 6 THE PLAY IN PERFORMANCE -- PETER BROOK AND THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 1962 -- GRIGORI KOZINTSEV'S RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FILM (1970) -- ADRIAN NOBLE AND THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (1982) -- RICHARD EYRE AND THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE (BBC-TV, 1999) -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- EDITIONS -- TEXTUAL STUDIES -- SOURCES AND CONTEXTS -- GENERAL CRITICISM -- PSYCHOANALYTICAL, GENDER, AND OTHER CRITICAL APPROACHES -- KING LEAR IN PERFORMANCE -- Index -- About the Author.

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