...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... there is no longer a church in the village, but surely there are still a school and a library? My primary example is a book published by Harvard University Press: Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge ( 2019 ), senior lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews—in other words, a well-established, justly...

..., 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...

... with words and their sounds that comes very close to nonsense a verbal play comparable to that of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or Sir W. S. Gilbert. Hopkins loses nothing in the comparison with iis fellow Victorians: play is seldom if ever trivial or meaningless, and it is entirely compatible...

...” is an instance of humor only.) I shall try to show that one reason for this is that King Lear, with its “comedy of the grotesque” (to use Vl’ilson Knight’s phrase), is fertilizing Browning’s exceptionally vigorous 1 Quotations from “Childe Roland” and other Browning poems are from the Complete...

... control of the outward action by a single character, the Halletts’ method obscures what most critics would regard as more important aspects of dramatic action. For example, according to the Halletts, King bar 1.1.53-107 is divided into three beats: “Shakespeare has Lear interview first Goneril...

... the pain worthwhile. Still others assert that a transcendent logos runs through the plays, or that they affirm an Elizabethan world-order in which Shakespeare believed. Even a fine writer like G. Wilson Knight, after demonstrating the grotesque absurdity of the Lear universe, con- cludes...

... prison world shows that Richard has learned something of the significance of his own earlier words and gestures: “Thus play I in one person many people, / And none con- tented.” In learning to distinguish in himself shadow from substance, Richard has learned what at a far deeper level Lear...