Directory of King Lear Resources

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• "Unaccommodated man" and His Discontents in King Lear: Edmund the Bastard and Interrogative Puns

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/gilbedm.htm
  Anthony Gilbert engages structuralist theory, suggesting that the connection between signifier and signified is loosened and exposed as arbitrary, allowing for alternative interpretations of the sense.

• Enjoying King Lear

  http://www.pathguy.com/kinglear.htm
  Lear-related information, compiled by Ed Friedlander M.D.

• King Lear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear
  Plot Summary, Character Lists, Sources, History, Film Adaptations, and further links.

• King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/jackrev.htm
  Ken Jackson reviews the Judy Kronenfeld book.

• King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family

  http://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/10/003-king-lear-beyond-reason-love-and-justice-in-the-family
  Essay regarding the conflict within the parent/child relationship as exemplified in King Lear.

• King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/schnlear.html
  Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. suggests that "one way of bridging the gap between us and Shakespeare might be to imagine what it was like to live under the material conditions determining human existence in Shakespeare's time and deducing what the moral consequences of these conditions might be."

• King Lear Text: presented by Dr. Larry A. Brown

  http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm
  Full text, with annotations and explanation of the two major texts traditions.

• Lear: From Study to Stage

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/goochrev.htm
  Bryan N. S. Gooch reviews the James Ogden and Arthur H. Scouten book.

• The Character of Kent in King Lear

  http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/?p=67
  By Donald LaGreca. First published in the Spring 1986 Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter.

• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm
  Steve Sohmer argues that "textual evidence in the Q1 Lear suggests that the play was purpose-written (or substantially revised) for performance before King James I on 26 December 1606."

• TheatreHistory.com: King Lear

  http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/kinglear001.html
  History and analysis of the play.

• Titles from King Lear

  http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/lear.html
  A list of book and play titles derived from King Lear.

 

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