...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...

...Russ Castronovo Haya Patterson Anita. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 257 pp. $49.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Castronovo I Review 123 From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics ofprotest...

...Margaret Bruzelius © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.1-02 Bruzelius 2/9/01 2:05 PM Page 19 “The King of England . . . Loved to Look upon a man”: Melancholy and Masculinity in Scott’s Talisman Margaret Bruzelius...

...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...

...Henry Pettit Werner W. Beyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 414. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 384 Revicws Keats and the Daemon King. By WERNERW. BEYER.New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. xiv...

...Kristina Mendicino The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West . By Weineck Silke-Maria . New York : Bloomsbury , 2014 . x + 208 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 At issue in this book is the father and the tragic...

... 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...

... that in current thinking King John typified the conflict with the Roman Church, Richard I1 the question of royal abdication, Henry IV the dangers of rebellion, Henry V the justice or injustice of war, Richard I11 the evil of unrestrained personal ambition. These interpre- tations largely...

... 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 Riley Parker Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 MILTON ON KING JAMES THE SECOND By WILLIAMRILEY PARKER In the first published life of Milton, Anthony h Wood included a bibliography of Milton’s printed works, the thirty-fourth...

...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...

.... S -1- LTA K-I- <; ~1 R K A N Uniz)ersit?qf Penrisylzmiia Tennyson and Madness. By ANNC. COI,LF.I,.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 176 pp. $20.00. Tennyson’s Camelot: The “Idylls of thP King” and Its Medieval SourcPJ. By DAVIDSTAINVES. Waterloo, Ont., Canada...

... 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...

...William Bowman Piper Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THE WHOLE BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS By WILLIAMBOWMAN PIPER The elaborate statue that Merlin cast at the command of King Arthur...

...Robert W. Ackerman Nathan Comfort Starr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1954. Pp. xvii + 218. $4.50. cloth; $3.50, paper. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS King Arthur Today: The Arthurian Legend in English and Americair...

...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...

...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...

... serve as a spur to others in the expanding field of cultural studies who will want to reckon with this book. Robert S. Knapp, Reed College Mock Kings in Medieual Society and Renaissance Drama. By Sandra Billington. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. xii + 287 pp...