Shakespeare's King Lear (The Connell Guide To ...)

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Shakespeare's King Lear (The Connell Guide To ...)

Lear is too much. Thereâ€™s too much to stomach, an overdoing of massive wickednesses which rightly provoked perhaps the most famous reaction to King Lear ever, Dr Samuel Johnsonâ€™s horror in his Prefaces to his Shakespeare (1765) over the blinding of Gloucester â€“â€œan act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibitionâ€ â€“ and the death of Cordelia: â€œcontrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chroniclesâ€. There are indeed just too many awful enhancements of the Lear stories Shakespeare drew on, a superfluity of terrible things â€“ and of course these, as Valentine Cunningham says, are uneasily central to a play which teaches the immorality of the well-off having a â€œsuperfluxâ€ of money and things when the poor have so little. So what explains the dramatic success of Lear? The great critic A.C. Bradley had grave reservations about it, but he conceded, this play was the â€œfullest revelation of Shakespeareâ€™s powerâ€ â€“ up there with Aeschylusâ€™s Prometheus Bound, Danteâ€™s Divine Comedy, Beethovenâ€™s symphonies and Michelangeloâ€™s statues; the most moving and daunting of tragic experiences the world has ever known promoted by a greatly trashy plot, or, as the poet and critic D. J. Enright puts in his lively book about teaching Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Students (1970): â€œIt is possible that Shakespeare never did anything more awe-inspiring, more improbable-seeming than this â€“ to take a petulant old retired monarch, drive him mad and stick flowers in his hair, and still end with a figure of tragedy.â€
Country USA
Brand Connell Publishing
Manufacturer Connell Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2018-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781907776236

Country	USA
Brand	Connell Publishing
Manufacturer	Connell Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2018-09-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781907776236

Shakespeare's King Lear (The Connell Guide To ...)

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