Paperback. What is King Lear about? What is it that breaks down in Lear? How important are the gods? How Christian is Lear? What do we make of Bedlam Tom's gibberish? Why is Edgar so important? To what extent is Nature being questioned? How does Shakespeare show us a world reduced to "nothing"? Does the play undermine language itself? How sympathetic is Shakespeare's treatment of women in Lear? Where does Lear leave us in the end? How does Lear look forward to Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd? The horrors of King Lear appalled Dr Johnson and exasperated A.C. Bradley, the most influential of all commentators on Shakespeare. Yet, like subsequent critics, they could not deny the play's greatness. For all his reservations Bradley conceded that it was the "fullest revelation of Shakespeare's power" - up there with Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Dante's Divine Comedy, Beethoven's symphonies and Michelangelo's statues.With his customary eloquence and passion, the distinguished critic Valentine Cunningham shows what it is that Shakespeare is driving at in Lear and how this extraordinary tragedy about a foolish old king who goes mad leads directly to Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd. King Lear appalled Dr Johnson and exasperated AC Bradley yet, like subsequent critics,they could not deny the play's greatness. With his customary eloquence and passion, Cunningham shows what it is that Shakespeare is driving at in Lear and how this extraordinary tragedy about a foolish king leads directly to Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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T�tulo: The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's King Lear (Paperback)
Editor: CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2012
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1907776230
ISBN 13: 9781907776236
Encuadernaci�n: Paperback
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Lear is too much. There’s too much to stomach, an overdoing of massive wickednesses which rightly provoked perhaps the most famous reaction to King Lear ever, Dr Samuel Johnson’s horror in his Prefaces to his Shakespeare (1765) over the blinding of Gloucester –“an act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibition” – and the death of Cordelia: “contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chronicles”. There are indeed just too many awful enhancements of the Lear stories Shakespeare drew on, a superfluity of terrible things – and of course these, as Valentine Cunningham says, are uneasily central to a play which teaches the immorality of the well-off having a “superflux” of money and things when the poor have so little. So what explains the dramatic success of Lear? The great critic A.C. Bradley had grave reservations about it, but he conceded, this play was the “fullest revelation of Shakespeare’s power” – up there with Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Beethoven’s symphonies and Michelangelo’s statues; the most moving and daunting of tragic experiences the world has ever known promoted by a greatly trashy plot, or, as the poet and critic D. J. Enright puts in his lively book about teaching Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Students (1970): “It is possible that Shakespeare never did anything more awe-inspiring, more improbable-seeming than this – to take a petulant old retired monarch, drive him mad and stick flowers in his hair, and still end with a figure of tragedy.”

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Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Senior Fellow in English Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has reviewed widely on literary topics, done many BBC radio talks on literary and musicological issues, lectured a lot around the world on literary and literary-historical issues, has been a Visiting Professor of Literature in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Germany, and judged many literary prizes, including The Man-Booker Prize (twice!). His books include Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975), British Writers of the Thirties (1988), In the Reading Gaol: (Post)modernity, Texts, and History (1994), Reading After Theory (2002), and Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics (2011). His editions include The Penguin Book of Spanish War Verse (1980), Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War (1986), and The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (2000).

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