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.... JOHN E. HANKINS University of Kansas This Grcat Stage: Image aptd Structure in King Lear. By ROBERTBECHTOLD HEILMAN.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948. Pp. xi + 339. $3.50. The modern study of Shakespeare’s imagery provides us with interesting evidence...

...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 KING LEAR AND THE MERLIN TRADITION By ROLAND&I. SMITH It has been generally believed that the great scenes of King Lear which unfold the madness of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool sprang from...

... of the problem; the more speculative side emphatically remains to be reexamined. HENRYW. WELLS Columbia University The True Text of King Lear. By LEOKIRSCHBAUM. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. Pp. ix + 81. $1.75. Mr. Kirschbaum believes...

...James Kuzner Abstract This essay considers the relation between lyric utterance, dramatic irony, and intellectual disability in King Lear , particularly in Lear’s famous address to Cordelia—which begins with “Come, let’s away”—just before Edmund sends both to prison. Reading “Come, let’s away...

... and illuminating. H. T. SWEDENBERG,JR. University of California, Los Angeles Prefaces to Shakespeare. Volume I: Hamlet, King Lear, The Mer- chant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline. By HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER.Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University...

... integrity of the Oxford University Press which continues to make good books in a world that ever moves closer to proclaiming that not Whirl, but Shoddiness, is King. GARLANDETHEL Uniwwsity of Washington Shakespeare‘s King Lear...

...William H. Matchett Stephen Booth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xi + 183 pp. $16.95. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 WILLIAM H. MATCHETT 87 “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” Indefinition, and Tragedy...

... THE FIELD ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA IN THE WAKE OF KING LEAR* By WILLIAMH. MATCHETT There are a few literary works so successful-so thorough-that they have exhausted the possibilities in the areas they have ex- plored. Each...

...Warren Stevenson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 ALBANY AS ARCHETYPE IN KZNG LEAR By WARRENSTEVENSON A. C. Bradley, upon observing of the character of Albany in King Lear that he is “merely sketched...

...Robert P. Adams Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 KING LEAR’S REVENGES By ROBERTP. ADAMS In a play filled with grandeur, meanness, and complexly mysterious insights into the human condition, the passage in which Lear pleads, “0...

.... The “double blessing” that Polonius gives Laertes shows this ritual comically, as do those of earlier sons Launce and Launcelot in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Merchant of Venice ; All’s Well That Ends Well renders it confusingly in feudal transition into a new age. King Lear offers it in the peaceful...

...John Reibetanz Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 1 John L. Murphy. Darkness and Devils: Exorcism and “King Lear.” Athens and London: Ohio University Press, 1984. xii + 267 pp. $26.95. William F. Zak. Sovereign Shame: A Study of “King Lear.” Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell...

..., is a recognition of the nature of “le Grand Mkcanisme” by one of its victims. Richard I1 is suddenly and brutally confronted with the reality of his situation. King Lear, on the other hand, descends the tragic staircase slowly and only gradually comes to awareness. King Lear is a good play by which...

... to read on to the end. Yet in this the ordinary reader will be mistaken, while the reviewer and the scholar will find their patience rewarded. For the chapter that is most worth reading is the last-that on King Lear-which is aptly entitled “The Limits of Nobility-Everything and Nothing,” though...

..., as well as the taste of the audience, kept it so. Attempts to prove that Shakespeare was an expert theologian or that his trag- edies embodied the views of St. Augustine have been countered by K. M. Frye and others. Even William K. Elton, who allows that King Lear deliber- ately expresses...

.... GARLANDETHEL Uniwwsity of Washington Shakespeare‘s King Lear: A Critical Edition. Edited by GEORGEIAN DUTHIE. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949. Pp. ix 4- 425. $5.50. In his preface, Professor Duthie writes: “The aim of this work is to present the reader with a text of King Lear which...

... to which he is particularly attentive in three long chapters are those of Hamlet, King Lear, and both Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. If this selection seems a bit thin-why not Macbeth? and why treat Othello merely as a lead-in to Antony?-Foreman compensates for it with two introductory...

... are As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Tempest. Young’s are As You Like It, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. The arbitrariness of subject, both of inclusion and of exclusion, of these three intelligent and moderately interesting books makes it all...

... emphatically remains to be reexamined. HENRYW. WELLS Columbia University The True Text of King Lear. By LEOKIRSCHBAUM. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. Pp. ix + 81. $1.75. Mr. Kirschbaum believes that a satisfactory text of King Lear...

...’ conclusion may strike the reader as a truism, it applies to many scholarly studies, including the accompanying es- says on Renaissance literature. Whereas Wittreich’s study of King Lear seems to exaggerate the impact of the Apocalypse, Florence Sandler’s essay, “The Faerie Queene: An Elizabethan...