King Lear

King Lear Criticism

• King Lear (Vol. 61)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: History, Politics, And Society
    • King Lear's ‘Immoral’ Daughters and the Politics of Kingship
    • Shakespeare and the End of Feudalism: King Lear as Fin-de-siècle Text
    • King Lear's Reflection in The Mirror of Nobody: An Iconographical Question
    • Maintaining Hierarchy in The Tragedie of King Lear
    • Impossible Worlds: What Happens in King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1?
  • Criticism: Language And Structure
    • Entitled to be King: The Subversion of the Subject in King Lear
    • Lear and Cordelia's Tragic Love Revisited
    • King Lear, Narrating, and Surprise
    • Love's Trials
  • Criticism: Sources And Adaptations
    • The Player King
    • Lear: Plot and Theme
  • Further Reading
• King Lear (Vol. 72)
  • Introduction
  • King Lear Defamiliarized
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Storm Within: The Madness of Lear
    • The Emotional Landscape of King Lear
    • ‘Look, Her Lips’: Softness of Voice, Construction of Character in King Lear.
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
    • Review of King Lear
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Worst of King Lear
    • The Artist Exploring the Primitive: King Lear
    • Plays within Plays: Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra
    • On the Blinding of Gloucester
    • Creative Uncreation in King Lear
    • Lateness in King Lear.
  • Further Reading
• King Lear (Vol. 83)
  • Introduction
  • King Lear and Essentialist Humanism
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Gloucester and Lear: Men who Act Like Gods
    • On the Greatness of King Lear
    • Something from Nothing
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • The 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival's King Lear
    • The 2001 Globe Season: Celts and Greenery
    • Magical Monarch: Christopher Plummer is Superb in King Lear.
    • Every Inch a King, Every Moment a Revelation
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Charity in King Lear.
    • The Context of Lear's Unbuttoning
    • The Reversal of All Histories
    • The Redemption of King Lear
    • The Promised End
    • Cordelia's Return
    • The Storm in King Lear
    • King Lear and Christendom
    • King Lear Without End: Shakespeare, Dramatic Theory, and the Role of Catastrophe
  • Further Reading
• From Leir to Lear
• Lear, King
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Romance in King Lear
    • King Lear
  • Patriarchal Order
    • Reason and Need: King Lear and the 'Crisis' of the Aristocracy
    • The Cultivation of Anxiety: King Lear and His Heirs
    • Patriarchy, Mutuality, and Forgiveness in King Lear
    • The Patriarchal Bard: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare; King Lear and Measure for Measure
  • Sexuality And Gender
    • Sex and Pessimism in King Lear
    • Is Man No More Than This?
    • The Absent Mother in King Lear
  • The Daughters
    • Moral Experience and Its Typology in King Lear
    • Pagan Atheism: Goneril and Regan, Edmund
    • The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear
    • The King's Ship
  • Further Reading
• The Integrity of King Lear
  • Introduction
  • Q
  • F
• King Lear: The Tragic Disjunction of Wisdom and Power
• Apparent Perversities: Text and Subtext in the Construction of the Role of Edgar in Brook's Film of King Lear1
  • Introduction
  • Text
  • Subtext
• King Lear (Vol. 46)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • King Lear
  • Lear's Fool
    • The Tragi-Comic Dimensions of Lear's Fool
    • The Fool's Mirror in King Lear
    • Lear's Fool in King Lear
  • Cordelia
    • The Double Casting of Cordelia and Lear's Fool: A Theatrical View
    • 'My Poor Fool is Hanged': Cordelia, the Fool, Silence and Irresolution in King Lear
  • The Family
    • The Image of the Family in King Lear
    • King Lear: The Lear Family Romance
  • Lear
    • Lear
    • Dramatic 'Pity' and the Death of Lear
  • Politics And The Law
    • 'Demystifying the Mystery of State': King Lear and the World Upside Down
    • Earthy Doom and Heavenly Thunder: Judgement in King Lear
  • Further Reading
• An excellent thing in woman: Virgo and Viragos in King Lear