. . .. . .. Niccols,
Richard,
1584-1616. How Qveene Cordila in despaire slew her selfe,
the yeare before Christ, 800. In A mirovr for
magistrates : being a trve chronicle historie of the
vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note,
as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this
iland. Furness Library Facsimile. Furness Library. (If
you have problems to access this page, try:
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
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on-line editions
The
Furness Shakespeare Library:
Online facsimile editions of King Lear, the First Folio
(1623) and Quarto 2 (1619).
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Quarto
1(1608), Folio (1623)
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Lr/index.html]
All quarto and folio editions in facsimile [http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/plays/Lr.html]
Promptbooks
of the 17th Century
ed. G. Blakemore-Evans.
[http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/]
(25/04/01)
King
Lear,
ed. Alexander Pope, 1723 (Jan. 2002)
King
Lear,
annotated edition, Larry A. Brown.
[http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm]
(May 2002)
King
Lear CD project
[http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/research/lear/index.html
] (May 2002)
audio excerpts
King Lear (TV-production 1998) Director: Richard
Eyre; Cordelia: Victoria Hamilton (to listen, click at scene
picture from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html]
(Jan. 2002)
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translations
German
König
Lear,
Deutsche Übersetzung, Chr. M. Wieland (Gutenberg)
[http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/lear/lear.htm]
(May 2002)
Dutch
Koning Lear Dutch
translation.
by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March
2002)
French
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1821) Oeuvres
complètes de Shakspeare V. Le roi Lear. Cymbelline.
La méchante femme mise à la raison.
François-Victor Hugo: Oeuvres complètes de
William Shakespeare vol.9. La famille. Coriolan. Le roi
Lear. both translations online at:
Bibliothèque
nationale de France,
Gallica; mode image, format PDF
or via: http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/William_Shakespeare
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sources
Sources
to Lear the
most relevant excerpts [Try the web archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kinglear.rutgers.edu/index-sources.html]
Geoffrey of Monmouth:
Historia Regum Britanniae; History of the Kings of
Britain
by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J.
A. Giles [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kings_of_Britain] Jan. 2010
Edmond Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto X [http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/queene2.html]
(last visit: Jan. 2010)
The Furness Shakespeare Library: A
Mirovr for Magistrates
(1610); Furness Library. If you have problems to access
this page, try: [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Samuel Harsnett, A
Declaration of egregious Popish
Impostures,
(1603) Furness Library. If you have problems to access this
page, try: [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Bowen, Gwynneth. Hackney,
Harsnett and the Devils in King Lear.
Shakespearean Authorship Review, Autumn 1965.
[http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/bowen/16hackney.htm]
(Feb. 2004)
cf. Stephen Greenblatt: "Shakespeare and the Exorcists" in:
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social
Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley, 1988)
on Exorcism: Olson, Richard. "Spirits,
Witches & Science.
Why the rise of science encouraged belief in the
supernatural in 17th century England" From Skeptic
vol. 1, no. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 34-43.
[http://www.skepticfiles.org/skmag/bewitch.htm] Jan 2010
The Sceptic's Dictionary: Exorcism
(Robert Todd Carroll)
[http://skepdic.com/exorcism.html] (June 04)
Catholic Encyclopedia: Exorcist
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05711a.htm] (June
04)
Anonymus. King
Leir. The true Chronical History of King Leir and his three
daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and Cordella
(on this site;
full text on one page, modernised spelling. 215 K)
not available:
The Annesley Case: Sir John Wildegos to Lord Cecil, Sir
Thomas Walsingham to Lord Cecil, Cordell Annesley to Lord
Cecil, Epitaph on Brian Annelsley
Historia Anglicana, trans. Geoffrey of Monmouth (Aaron
Thompson 1718)
William Harrison "An Historical Description of Iland of
Britaine,"
William Camden, Remaines Concerning Britaine,
1606
William Warner, Albion's England, 1589 edn.
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productions, performances
a) stage history
Current
and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the
UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)
The
Traffic of the Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1997 - 2003 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (site no longer active: Jan. 2010)
Shakespeare
at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (Jan. 2010)
New
Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes,
theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (Jan. 2010)
b) actors, directors, pictures of performances
The
Cleveland Press Shakespeare
Photographs by
Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures
of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare
on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]
King
Lear 8 pictures
(1956-1974) tragedies: [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/tragedy.shtml] (Jan. 2002)
Edwin Forrest as King Lear. James Rees, 1874 [http://www.josephhaworth.com/edwin_forrest.htm] (l.v. Jan. 2010)
No longer active:
King
Lear: A Director's View
(Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002)
A
critic's view (interview
with Michael Ignatieff) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/critic.shtml] (l.v. Feb. 2004)
An
actor's view [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/actor.shtml]
Victoria Hamilton as Cordelia (audio excerpt from King
Lear TV-production 1998, dir. Richard Eyre; to listen,
click at scene picture from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Richman, David. The
King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and
Performance (Shaksper Net, 1997) [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/q1lear.perform.html]
c) reviews of productions (chronological)
Edwin
Forrest as King Lear. James Rees, 1874 [http://www.josephhaworth.com/edwin_forrest.htm] (l.v.
Jan. 2010)
Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. The
History of King Lear : Acted at the Duke's theatre. London, 1681 (Furness
library, [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/])
Philipp Lawrence, King Lear, Off-Broadway,
1959
Joseph
Papp, King Lear, Broadway 1962 [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?sid=s2170]
RSC Staging History 1962-2007 [http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/kingLear.html[ (Jan. 2010)
King
Lear Photograph Collection performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976-1993.
edited by Christie Carson and Jacky Bratton. [http://ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/collection.htm?uri=pa-1013-1] (Jan. 2010; confirm Access Agreement first)
among them:
Nunn, Trevor. King
Lear pictures of the 1976 RSC production. (Lear: Donald Sinden)
(l. v. September 2001)
Noble, Adrian. King
Lear pictures of the 1982 RSC production (fool: Antony Sher,
Lear: Michael Gambon) (l. v. September 2001)
Edward Bond, Lear,
adaptation; pictures of the 1982 RSC production (l. v.
September 2001)
Hytner, Nicolas. King
Lear,
pictures of the 1989 RSC production [http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk:81/padsKingLearPhotographs/1989Berry] (l. v. September 2001)
Berry, Cecily. King
Lear pictures of the 1989 RSC production, Almeida Theatre (l. v.
September 2001)
Noble, Adrian. King
Lear,
pictures of the 1993 RSC production [http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk:81/padsKingLearPhotographs/1990Noble] (l. v. September 2001]
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film
versions
Internet
Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare
on Television: a bibliography of
criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Shakespeare Magazine: A close look at King Lear on film [http://www.shakespearemag.com/handouts/lear.asp] (Jan. 2010)
Cook, Hardy M. "Two
Lears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual
Strategies."
(Jonathan Miller and Michael Elliot) Literature/Film
Quarterly. 14 (1986): 179-186. Reprinted in Bulman and
Coursen, Shakespeare and Television: An Anthology of
Essays and Reviews, 122-129. Shaksper webpage:
also here: M. "Two Lear's for Television: An Exploration of Televisual
Strategies."
(l.v. Febr. 2004)
King Lear (UK, 2008) (TV) dir. by Trevor Nunn with Ian McKellen as Lear Watch the whole play, presented by PBS [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/king-lear/watch-the-play/487/] (Jan. 2010)
King
of Texas (USA, 2001) (TV) dir. Uli Edel. Self-made ranch tycoon John
Lear divides his holdings among his daughters but finds that
once they have his property, they reject him. (Patrick
Stewart as John Lear) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0282659] (Dec. 2001)
The
King is Alive
(Sweden, Denm., USA. 2000, horror film: When a bus breaks
down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage King
Lear) dir. Kristian Levring. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0208911]
King
Lear (2000) writing credits: Ernst Kaufmann [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239093/]
King
Lear (UK
1997) Eyre, Richard. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0148376]
King Lear (TV-production) dir. Richard Eyre;
Cordelia: Victoria Hamilton (to listen, click at scene
picture from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Act I.1. on Youtube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjIGjGq4ReE]
A
Thousand Acres
(USA, 1997 dir. Moorhouse, Jocelyn. (King Lear set on
a farm in Iowa) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120323]
Kung
Lear (Sweden 1997) dir. Oskarson, Peter [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0178685]
King
Lear.
Sci-Fi. (Bahamas, 1987) dir. Jean-Luc Godard; Writing
credits Jean-Luc Godard and Norman Mailer [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093349] Preview or download whole film [http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/culture/watch/v15919996dq5d2hF5]
Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089881]
Chalk, Alan G. King
Lear / Ran Lesson Plan. [http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/ChalkGuides/Lear=Ran.html] (Jan. 2002)
King
Lear (UK,
1984) (TV) dir. Michael Elliott (Laurence Olivier) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087561]
King
Lear (1982) (BBC, TV) dir. Jonathan Miller [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084208]
Re
Lear (Italy, 1979) (TV) dir. Giorgio Strehler [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079779]
King
Lear (UK,
1976) dir. Steve Rumbelow [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074752]
King
Lear (UK,
1975) (TV) dir. Jonathan Miller [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073245]
King
Lear (USA,
1974) (TV) dir. Edwin Sherin [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076269]
King
Lear (UK,
Denmark, 1971) dir. Peter Brook (Lear: Paul Scofield) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067306]; Review by Kevin Hagopian [http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/fns98n11.html] (Jan. 2002)
Korol
Lir
(UdSSR, 1969 / King Lear USA, 1975) dir. Grigori
Kozintsev [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064553]
Broken
Lance (USA
1954) dir. Edward Dmytryk, with Spencer Tracy. (Western,
adaptation of Lear) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0046808]
King
Lear (USA,
1953) (TV) dir. Andrew McCullough, Peter Brook (Lear: Orson
Welles) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0045960]
Gunsundari
Katha
(India, 1949) based on Lear, dir. Kadri Venkata Reddy [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0266605]
King
Lear (UK,
1948) (TV) dir. Royston Morley [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0040510]
The
Yiddish King Lear (USA; 1934) dir. Harry Tomashefsky [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0026010]
King
Lear silent m. (USA, 1916) dir. Ernest C. Warde [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0006895]
Le
Roi Lear au village silent m. (France, 1911) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209284/]
Re
Lear silent m. (Italy, 1910) dir. Giuseppe de Liguoro [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001377]
King
Lear silent m.(Italy, 1909) dir. Gerolamo lo Savio [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001378]
King
Lear silent m. (USA, 1909) dir. J. Stuart Blackton, William V.
Ranous [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000928]
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adaptations in literature
Titles
from Lear [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/lear.html]
Anonymus. King
Leir. The true Chronical History of King Leir and his three
daughters, Gonorill, Ragan and Cordella
(on this site;
full text on one page, modernised spelling. 215 KB
Baker, Christopher. "Lear's
Prayer" (on
this site)
Barker, Howard. 7 Lears. 1989. (play)
Beckett, Samuel. Fin de Partie. 1956.
Endgame. (full text) [http://Samuel-Beckett.net/endgame.html] (May 2002)
Beckett
page [http://Samuel-Beckett.net/] (May 2002)
Bond, Edward. Lear. 1972. (play) Photographs of the 1982 RSC production [http://ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/collection.htm?uri=pa-1013-1] (Jan. 2010; confirm Access Agreement first)
Bottomley, Gordon. King Lear's Wife. 1915. (play)
Colman, George (the elder). The History of King Lear.
1768. (play) OhioLink (Authentication
required) [http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/shak-adapt.html]
Elliston, R. W. and Edmund Kean. King Lear. 1830.
(play) OhioLink (Authentication
required) [http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/shak-adapt.html]
Kean, Charles. King Lear. 1858. (play) OhioLink
(Authentication
required) [http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/shak-adapt.html]
Keats, John. On
Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once
Again. (1838),
with intext notes. [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1134.html] (Jan. 2010)
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
Lear [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LTLEAR.HTM]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales,
ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002)
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales,
ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Lee, Young Jean. Lear [http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/62897/] (Jan. 2010)
some pictures from the production [http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/gallery//921/?pnum=1]
Macready, William. King Lear. 1857. (play) OhioLink
(Authentication
required) [http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/shak-adapt.html]
Manga Shakespeare. King Lear. [http://www.mangashakespeare.com/titles/king_lear.html] (Jan. 2010)
Maugham, Robin. Mister Lear. 1963. (play)
Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful
Tales from Shakespeare
Pope, Alexander. King
Lear,
1723 (Jan. 2002)
Ronfard, Jean-Pierre. Lear. 1976. (play)
Smiley, Jane. A
Thousand Acres. 1991 (novel)
Tate, Nahum. The
History of King Lear. 1681. (play) ed. Jack Lynch [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/tatelear.html]
Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. The
History of King Lear : Acted at the Duke's theatre. London, 1681, Furness
Library. If you have problems to access this page, try: [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept. 2001)
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adaptations
in music
Cottrau Giulio (1833-1916) Il Re Lear (1913)
Durme, Jef van. König
Lear opera, op. 59 (1955)
Berlioz, Hector. Le
Roi Lear,
ouverture, H53
Bozic, Darijan. Kral
Lear. (Maribor, 1986) [http://www.operone.de/komponist/bozic.html]
Cagnoni, Antonio (1818-1896) Re Lear (1890)
Frazzi, Vito Re
Lear (1939
Firenze) [http://www.operone.de/komponist/frazzi.html]
Gerhard, F. C. König Lear, Wuppertal 1956
Ghislanzoni, Alberto. Re
Lear (Rome, 1937) [http://www.operone.de/komponist/ghislanzoni.html]
Gobatti, Stefano (1853-1913): Cordelia (1881;
libretto Carlo D'Ormeville ) on Gobatti [http://www.luigiverdi.it/stefano_gobatti-mostra.htm]
Henze, Hans Werner. Gloucester. In: Royal Winter
Music für Gitarre, 1976. (Gloucester, Romeo and
Juliet, Ariel, Ophelia, Touchstone, Oberon, Sir Andrew
Aguecheek, Bottom's Dream, Mad Lady Macbeth)
Hosokawa, Toshio. Vision
of Lear (chamber opera, 1998)
Reimann, Aribert (1936- ) Lear,
opera, 1978
Reynaud, King Lear (1888 )
Sallinen, Aulis (1935-). King
Lear.
(libretto Matti Rossi) 2000 [http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/sallinen.html] composer's biography
in French [http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00001858/index.html] and here [http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/CDMO/Opera/Sallinen.html]
Séméladis, King Lear (1854 )
Shostakovic, Dmitri. Incidental
Music to King Lear; King Lear Film
Music (for
Kosintzev, 1970) Review by Steve Schwartz. [http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/c/cap10397a.html] (Jan. 2002)
Songs:
see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
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paintings, illustrations
Shakespeare
illustrated
Boydell, London 1803 copperplates: [http://www.archive.org/stream/illustratedcata02englgoog/illustratedcata02englgoog_djvu.txt]
Blake, William. Lear
and Cordelia in Prison (1779) [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1134&searchid=9770] (Jan. 2010)
Kokoschka, Oskar. Lear (1963) biography (without reproduction) [http://www.onlinekunst.de/maerz/01_03_5_Kokoschka_Daten.htm]
Stone, M. "Lear and Cordelia" (picture from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
several paintings and illustrations at: Titles
from Lear [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/lear.html]
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historic criticism
Bradley,
A.C.,
Shakespearean Tragedy, 1905. on-line edition with
notes. (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) [http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/]
Hazlitt, William. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.
Lear.
Source Text : London: C. H. Reynell, 1817 [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_ch13.html] (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Lamb, Charles. On
the Tragedies of Shakspear (1818) [http://www.4literature.net/Charles_Lamb/On_the_Tragedies_of_Shakespeare/] (March 04)
Moulton, Charles Wells. From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and
American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols.
(Buffalo, NY: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 519-23.
recent criticism
Bibliography annotated; ed. C. W. Griffin [http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bgriffin/399/Lear%20Bibliography.html]
Bowen, Gwynneth. Hackney,
Harsnett and the Devils in King Lear.
Shakespearean Authorship Review, Autumn 1965. [http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/bowen/16hackney.htm] (Feb. 2004)
Carson, Christie. The
Lear CD Valencia seminar paper [http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7Esbennett/carson.htm] (l.
v. September 2001)
King
Lear CD project [http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/research/lear/index.html
] (May 2002)
Cook, Hardy M. "Two Lear's for Television: An Exploration of Televisual
Strategies."
(Jonathan Miller and Michael Elliot) From the SHAKSPER
archives via EMLS (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Epstein, Paul. The
Purgation of the Hero in Shakespearean
Tragedy. (Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Macbeth) [http://www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/epstein3.htm]
Freeman, Jane. Performing
the bodies of King Lear [http://www.griseldaonline.it/percorsi/3freeman_print.htm] (Feb. 2004) (Based on the theory of the King's two
bodies)
Ignatieff, Michael. Reconsidering
Lear. Threepenny Review, 1998: "What we think Lear is about
depends on how old we are, how much we have lived." (l. v.
2004)
Ingham, Adrian (1996) Renaissance
Views of Madness: King Lear
(Bartholomaeus Anglicus. De Proprietatibus Rerum.
Bright, Timothy. A Treatise of Melancholie)
Jaffa, Harry V. (June 1957) The
Limits of Politics, King Lear, Act I, Scene
1 American
Political Science Review, 51, [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.claremont.org/publications/jaffashakespeare.cfm] (Jan. 2002)
Johnston, Ian. Speak
What We Feel: An Introduction to King
Lear [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lear.htm] (Good introductory lecture to Lear) (Febr. 2004)
Locket, Joseph. "Lear's
Lapse: Foreshadowings in King Lear I.
i."
[http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/lear.html] (imagery in I.1.) (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Luhr, Eric: links
to critical articles [http://kinglear.rutgers.edu/index-critique.html]
Marowitz, Charles. Shakespearean
Scraps
(chapter from Roar of the Canon: Kott & Marowitz on
Shakespeare, Applause Books 2001) Shakespeare Bulletin,
vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 2001. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/fall01/article-marowitz.html] (Febr. 2002)
Marks, Robert G. Cordelia,
King Lear and his Fool. [http://users.bigpond.net.au/catchus/chapters.html]
Nighan, Raymond. The
Ending of Lear; Shakespeare intended a dialectical approach that
sustains the power of art to reflect mimetically the attempt
to reconcile several opposites, including love and hate and
faith and despair...
Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Is
This the Promised End?': The Tragedy of King
Lear." (Originally published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, Autumn 1974.) [http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lear.html]
Olson, Richard. "Spirits, Witches & Science. Why the rise of science encouraged belief in the supernatural in 17th century England" From Skeptic vol. 1, no. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 34-43. [http://www.skepticfiles.org/skmag/bewitch.htm] Jan 2010
Patterson, David. "Homer,
Shakespeare, and Tolstoy: What Literature Teaches About the
Collapse and Recovery of Home and
Family." Specifically see the section entitled, "The Undermining of a
Family: Shakespeare's King Lear." The Heritage
Foundation: Lectures and Seminars. (1995) "The home and
family in this drama come to ruin as the result of a
fundamental confusion about nature and natural law"
[http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/HL545.cfm] (l.v. Feb. 2004)
Reilly, Terry. King
Lear. The Kentish Forest and the Problem of
Thirds.
Oklahoma City University Law Review, vol. 26, nr 1, 2001 [http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/reilly26.htm] (Febr. 2004 / 2010: no longer active) discusses the interplay of dramatic form and
contemporary legal discourse concerning inheritance laws and
customs in English common law, civil law, and Kentish
gavelkind.
Richman, David. "The
King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and
Performance" This essay an April, 1985, production and was published in
Shakespeare Quarterly Autumn, 1986. Shaksper webpage: [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/q1lear.perform.html] (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King
Lear and the Culture of Justice" From the SHAKSPER archive via EMLS. (1997) [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/moral.shakes-3.html] (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King
Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death
Makes." EMLS.
(1995) [http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/01-1/schnlear.html]
Schwehn, Mark R. "King
Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the
Family." First
Things 36, (1993) [http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9310/schwehn.html]
"Edgar's speech (Act V, Scene iii) is the story of a life's
journey" (l.v. Febr. 2004)
Shurgot, Michael W. " 'The Thing Itself': Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability in King Lear." SRASP (1999) [http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html]
Stern, Tiffany. The
'Part` for Greene's Orlando Furioso: A Source for the 'Mock
Trial` in Shakespeare's Lear?,
pp. 229-231, in: Notes
and Queries,
vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)
Sohmer, Steve. "The
Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King
Lear." EMLS (September 1999) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm]
Stoll, Abraham. "Edgar
and Kingship in the Three King
Lears." SRASP (1999) [http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html]
Wylie, Jessica. "Faires
and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context for King
Lear." (From the SHAKSPER archive via EMLS) Shaksper webpage: [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/faires.andgods.html] (l.v. Febr. 2004)
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in the
classroom
see also on this site: Education
- Shakespeare in the classroom
Shakespeare Magazine: A close look at King Lear on film [http://www.shakespearemag.com/handouts/lear.asp] (Jan. 2010)
a) lesson plans for the lazy teacher
general
Web
resources [http://www.webenglishteacher.com/kinglear.html] (Febr. 2004)
Folger
Lesson Plans [http://www.folger.edu/eduLesPlan.cfm]
Lesson plans [http://www.shakespearehelp.com/lear.htm]
Cummings, Michael. The
Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to
Shakespeare. [http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/] (Feb. 2004) King
Lear [http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/KingLear.html#King%20Lear]
Gray, Terry A. Shakespeare
in Education Courses, Lesson plans. [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/educational.htm] (l.
v. September 2001)
Griffin, C. W. course 399: King
Lear [http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bgriffin/399/index.htm] (Febr. 2004)
King
Lear [http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3604.html] (May 2002)
Marx, Steven. Triangulating
Shakespeare:
teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles,
links, suggestions, film reviews [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Tragedies/tragedies.html]
Massi, JM. study
questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/lear.html] (Jan. 2002)
This page is no longer available. The questions are:
1. Why
the Gloucester subplot?
2. Lear asks 3 important questions during the storm. Find
them. Why are they important? How can they be answered?
3. What does the storm represent?
4. What does clothing represent? Why does Lear try to shed
his?
5. What part does divine intervention play? Is there a God
or gods?
6. How do parents relate to their children in this world?
Are the children anything like their individual parents?
7. Watch for references to seeing, eyes, perception,
disease, and self-knowledge. How do these motifs and issues
function in this play?
8. Watch the speech patterns of individual characters. Who
speaks in verse? In prose? In gibberish? In dialect? When?
Why? Why are there so many types of speech in this play?
9. Who does Lear address in his madness? Why?
10. What is the purpose of the Fool? What is his ultimate
fate?
11. Is Edgar a plausible character? Why does he maintain his
disguise for so long?
12. Is there any ultimate justice in this play? Is evil
punished or good rewarded?
13. Critics have called Lear "unproducible". Do you agree?
Why or why not?
14. Is Shakespeare making any statements about women and
power in this play? Can you tell Goneril and Regan apart?
Does Cordelia resemble them or her father in any
way?
Smith, Greg. King
Lear Study Site [http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/lear.html] (Jan. 2002)
Act
I
Bryant, Cherry and Di Sharratt: Teaching
Shakespeare [http://www.teach-shakespeare.com/] (l.v. Febr.
2004) Lear
Introduction: [http://www.lapis.plus.com/shakespeare/lear-8.pdf]
Borgman, Melissa. "Who
is it that can tell me who I am?":Looking
at Lear's Speeches (1.4.289-303 and 5.3.9-20) in Shakespeare
Magazine [http://www.shakespearemag.com/winter03/borgmann.asp] (Febr. 2003)
Lim, Jennifer. Fools for Love [http://www.folger.edu/eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=817]
Act
II
Act
III
Act
IV
Act
V
Miazka, Mark. Examining Redemption in King Lear [http://www.folger.edu/eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=847] (Jan. 2010)
b) sites for the eager student (plot summaries
etc.)
The
English Renaissance in Context:
Online Tutorial on Lear, editing etc. [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/teach/index.htm]
]
C. W. Griffin: scene-to-scene
summary and study questions [http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bgriffin/399/Lear%20Summary%20and%20Study%20Questions.html] (feb. 2004)
Cummings, Michael. The
Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to
Shakespeare. [http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/] (Feb. 2004) King
Lear [http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/KingLear.html#King%20Lear]
Frielander, Ed. "Enjoying King
Lear "
[http://www.pathguy.com/kinglear.htm]
ClassicNotes. [http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/kinglear/] (Jan. 2002)
SparkNotes,
S. Mandel. [http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/lear/] (Jan.
2002)
King
Lear, enotes:
needs a "King-Lear Pass" for 90 days
[http://www.enotes.com/pass/?notes=kl&site=allshakespeare]
King
Lear (The
Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on
Civilization, vol. 14. ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical
Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 39-44.) [http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/kinglear001.html] (Jan. 2002)
King
Lear Quiz [http://www.gradesaver.com/king-lear/study-guide/quiz1/] or: [http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/lear/quiz.html]
King Lear Quizzes [http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/literature/shakespeare/king_lear.html]
King Lear Quizzes per scene [http://www.enotes.com/king-lear/quizzes]
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deutsche Webseiten
Andriz, Rod. König
Lear - Hintergründe und
Informationen. [http://www.william-shakespeare.de/fo_lear.html]
Gröchel, André: William
Shakespeare - King Lear:
Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung ins Stück,
Hintergründe
[http://deslit.de/shakespeare/kinglear.htm]
Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/kinglear.htm]
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