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...Lindsey Larre The many disguises of Edgar in King Lear have led critics to dub the chameleonic figure a choreographer of human compassion in a play that holds compassion as a vital dramaturgical principle. This essay argues that Edgar's performances of suffering and his choreographies of deception...

...Jason Crawford In his last exchange with Cordelia, a failing and ecstatic Lear promises that they together will “take upon ’s the mystery of things / As if we were God’s spies” (5.3.16 – 17). Take upon us : what are the implications of this language? Why not invite Cordelia (in the formulations...

..., using the example of Mankind , this essay examines how the actor, seen as engaged in both collaborative and competitive play, can illuminate certain strategies in Shakespeare's work. Examples drawn from Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing , and King Lear illustrate how different kinds...

... might talk of an ideology or hegemony of space and place. The essay then specifically studies dramatic examinations of place and space (with close reading of several moments from Hamlet and King Lear ) to delineate the various ways in which spaces are occupied by actors and audience members...

... is cast out of the city and wanders as a vagrant, blind and in rags, dependent upon the hand of Antigone, his younger daughter. He requires, as he puts it, “her frailty” as the crutch for his “weight.”7 Antigone will act as his third leg. In King Lear, as in Oedipus Tyrannus, the riddle...

... are even more intense in 1.1 of The Trag- edy of King Lear, when Lear commands, “Give me the map there” (1.1.37). Two spatial reference points are established in this commend: me here, the map there. What is thrown into question is the relationship between those two points. Lear sees a one-­to-­one...

... of clothing and the physical object to which they apply, the body. Understanding that the fundamental concern shared between King Lear and Oedipus is the nature of the aging human body, that is, the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle, Stallbyrass points out that Lear ends up doing the opposite of what he had...

... more familiar scene at the cliffs of Dover in King Lear, recently explored in Tom Bishop’s article “Shakespeare’s Theater Games” and in Henry Turner’s “King Lear Without: The Heath.”25 When the blind Gloucester is led around the stage, Edgar insists that he is climbing, but Gloucester doubts...

... of its writing, and that its significance is further augmented — in fact, renewed — by the marks of its later readers. Pace Shakespeare’s King Lear, to which I will refer again below, poem and marginalia together allow us to venture into and across a wide spectrum of medieval and early modern...

... with the virtue tradition. 17 Lindsey Larre turns to a virtue not included in Aristotle's account of the moral virtues, but central to Aquinas's exposition of the theological virtues: love. Taking the excoriating assay of love in King Lear, she explores the language of “exchanging” and “enforcing” charity...

... required to execute virtual embodiment on the stage. Drama indexes the gestural sphere of early modern embodiment, both in what a play gives an actor to do (I am thinking here of the function of the repetitive worsening of the worst in King Lear as a challenge to virtuosity, first pointed out by Michael...

... suck; they wander from birth families to the families of their husbands, from tribe to tribe, changing names and affiliations: they are mystics, hysterics, translators, and spies.9 They fly on broomsticks, they suf- fer from “multiple personality disorder,” and they traffic in potions. When Lear...

.... and ed. The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1977) 2008. xii, 205 pp.; 1 map. Paper $18.95. Gordin, Jacob. The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America. Translated from the Yiddish by Ruth Gay. Edited by Ruth Gay and Sophie Glazer. New Haven, Conn...

... play under the guise of illusion actualizes his revenge, Hamlet’s theater renders him merely vulnerable. (When Shakespeare rewrites characters like Hieron- imo in the form of Leontes and Lear, he creates protagonists whose fantasies of control of public discourse have monstrous effects...

...  –  66) and “The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear” ( 2 6 7   –   3 5 6 ) . 34 Rosamund Tuve, Allegorical Imagery: Some Medieval Books and Their Posterity (Prince- ton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; repr. 1977), 178  –  79. She continues: “That Guillaume names Envy...

... that neglecting the early modern concern with disorder skews our understanding of the period. 5 For Mentz, it leads to unproductive binaries: Works like King Lear can help transform sterile dualisms and static ecosystems into pluralized and dynamic conceptions of self and nature. Making sense...

.... Paper $13.95. Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. Edited by Michael Hattaway. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 219 pp.; 15 illus. $44.95. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Edited by Stanley Wells. The Oxford...

..., his use of bold, free, or plain speech had established a rhetorical model, one res- olutely opposed to flattery, the court holy water of King Lear and John Ponet.62 In citing the example of Ambrose’s excommunication of Theodo- sius, for instance, Calvin stresses...

... Philosophy, vol. 8. Leiden: Brill, 2014. viii, 299 pp. $163.00. Schulman, Alex. Rethinking Shakespeare’s Political Philosophy: From Lear to Leviathan. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. x, 231 pp.; $120.00. Vatter, Miguel. Between...

.... Anthem Perspectives in Literature. London: Anthem Press, 2015. xii, 254 pp. Paper $24.95. Linley, Keith. “King Lear” in Context: The Cultural Background. Anthem Perspectives in Literature. London: Anthem Press, 2015. xii, 294 pp.; 2 figs. Paper $24.95. Linley, Keith. “The Tempest” in Context: Sin...