King Lear : new critical essays / edited by Jeffrey Kahan. - New York : Routledge, 2008. - x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: Shakespeare's King Lear / The reshaping of King Lear / The evolution of the texts of Lear / King Lear and early seventeenth-century print culture / "The injuries that they themselves procure": justice poetic and pragmatic, and aspects of the endplay, in King Lear / What does Shakespeare leave out of King Lear? / The cause of thunder: nature and justice in King Lear / Hope and despair in King Lear: the gospel and the crisis of natural law / Lear in Kierkegaard / The smell of mortality: performing torture in King Lear 3.7 / Some Lears of private life, from Tate to Shaw / If only: alternatives and the self in King Lear / Jeffrey Kahan -- R. A. Foakes -- Richard Knowles -- Cyndia Susan Clegg -- Tom Clayton -- Jean R. Brink -- Paul A. Cantor -- R. V. Young -- Stanley Stewart -- Edward L. Rocklin -- Christy Desmet -- Jeffrey Kahan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- King Lear.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
King Lear (Shakespeare, William)

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