Shakespearean Criticism | King Lear (Vol. 46) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Alfar, Cristina Leon. "King Lear's 'Immoral' Daughters and the Politics of Kingship." Exemplaria VIII, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 375-400.

Argues that Goneril and Regan are not innately "evil" but rather that their deeds are reactions to the "patrilinial structure of power relations in which they live and to which they must accommodate themselves."

Asp, Carolyn. "'The Clamor of Eros': Freud, Aging, and King Lear." In Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis, edited by Kathleen Woodward and Murray M. Schwartz, pp. 192-204. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Analyzes the relationship between Lear and his daughters using Freud's conception of family obligation.

Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "King Lear and the Royal Progress: Social Display in Shakespearean Tragedy." Disorder and the Drama. Renaissance Drama, New...

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