King Lear : new critical essays / edited by Jeffrey Kahan.

King Lear : new critical essays / edited by Jeffrey Kahan.

New York : Routledge, 2008.

x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Shakespeare criticism ; v. 33

"The issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Shakespeare's King Lear / Jeffrey Kahan
The reshaping of King Lear / R.A. Foakes
The evolution of the texts of Lear / Richard Knowles
King Lear and early seventeenth-century print culture / Cyndia Susan Clegg
"The injuries that they themselves procure" : justice poetic and pragmatic, and aspects of the endplay, in King Lear / Tom Clayton
What does Shakespeare leave out of King Lear? / Jean R. Brink
The cause of thunder : nature and justice in King Lear / Paul A. Cantor
Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law / R.V. Young
Lear in Kierkegaard / Stanley Stewart
The smell of mortality : performing torture in King Lear 3.7 / Edward L. Rocklin
Some Lears of private life, from Tate to Shaw / Christy Desmet
If only : alternatives and the self in King Lear / Jeffrey Kahan.

Shakespeare criticism ; v. 33.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

PR2819 .K495 2008