King Lear (Vol. 61) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Adelman, Janet. “Suffocating Mothers in King Lear.” In Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest, pp. 103-29. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Illustrates the theme of maternal sexuality and its resulting conflict in King Lear.
Battenhouse, Roy, ed. Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary, pp. 462-69. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Reprints two essays on the religious aspects of King Lear.
Cox, Catherine S. “‘An excellent thing in woman’: Virgo and Viragos in King Lear.” Modern Philology (November 1998): 143-57.
Contends that Shakespeare's representation of females reflected both the Christian and secular assumptions of his time.
Gardner, Helen. “King Lear (1967).” In King Lear: Critical Essays, edited by...
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