William Shakespeare's King Lear / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c1996. - 86 p. ; 23 cm. - Bloom's notes .

"A contemporary literary views book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83) and index.

Editor's Note / vii
Introduction / 1
Harold Bloom
King Lear / 9
Harold C. Goddard
Quarto and Folio King Lear and the Interpretation
of Albany and Edgar / 45
Michael J. Warren
On the Greatness of King Lear / 57
Stephen Booth
King Lear and Essentialist Humanism / 71
Jonathan Dollimore
Patriarchy, Mutuality, and Forgiveness
in King Lear / 85
Marianne Now
Shakespeare and the Exorcists / 97
Stephen Greenblatt
Creative Uncreation in King Lear / 121
James L. Calderwood
Chronology / 139
Contributors / 141

0791040658


Tragedy.
English literature--History and criticism.

822.33 / BOL/W