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William Shakespeare : King Lear /

A theatre-based study guide to Shakespeare's greatest play, emphasising the conditions of Jacobethan production, textual variations, and aspects of modern performance, rather than the background of ideas or critical interpretations. This book aims to introduce students (including those with lit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lennard, John, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Penrith [U.K.] : HEB, Humanities-Ebooks, 2010.
Colección:Literature insights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Licence and Use13;
  • Title Page13;
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • A Note on the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 0.1 Introduction
  • 0.2 A note on the texts of King Lear
  • 0.3 Acts and scenes in the Q1 and F1 texts
  • Part 1. Approaching Shakespeare
  • 1.19;A Man of the Jacobethan Theatre
  • 1.2 Companies ActorsStagesAudiences13;
  • 3.3 Venus and Lucrece
  • 3.49;Errors and Two Gents
  • Part 2. Approaching King Lear
  • 2.1 Fathers and Daughters and Fools
  • 2.28195;Unity and Division
  • 2.3 A Play by Shakespeare
  • Part 3. Actors and Players
  • 3.1 Lear
  • 2.2 Goneril
  • 2.3 Regan
  • 2.4 Cordelia
  • 2.5 Albany
  • 2.69;Cornwall
  • 2.7 Burgundy and France
  • 2.8 Kent/Caius
  • 2.9 Gloucester
  • 2.10 Edmund
  • 2.11 Edgar/Poor Tom
  • 2.12 Oswald
  • 2.13 The Fool
  • 3.14 Gentlemen, servants, &c.
  • Part 4. Acts and Devices
  • 4.1 Acts
  • 4.2 Scenes
  • 4.3 Soliloquy and Colloquy
  • 4.4 Verse, Prose, and Song
  • 4.5 Metatheatre
  • 4.6 Doubling
  • 4.7 Special Effects
  • 4.8 Exits
  • Part 5. Comedic Agony and King Lear
  • Part 6. Critics Corner
  • 6.1 Bibliography
  • 6.2 Major films of King Lear
  • 6.3 Web-sites
  • Humanities-Ebooks.