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• "Fairies and Gods": A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/FAIRES%20ANDGODS.txt

  Wylie, Jessica. "Faires and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Wylie explores the Celtic-pagan and Roman influences of and the interplay of these influences inKing Lear:

  keywords: celtic, king, Lr, lear, pagan, roman, religion

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• "Is This the Promised End?": The Tragedy ofKing Lear

  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lear.html

  Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy ofKing Lear." (Originally published in theJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism33.1 (1974): 19-32. Oates examines the scene in which Lear awakes to find Cordelia beside him (4.7) and how it functions in terms of the end of the play:

  keywords: art, criticism, end, king, Lr, lear, tragedy

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• "The Thing Itself": Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability inKing Lear

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html#A2

  Shurgot, Michael W. "'The Thing Itself': Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability inKing Lear."Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia (SRASP)22 (1999). Shurgot examines the thematic significance of the nude scenes in the Royal National Theatre's 1997 production ofKing Lear:

  keywords: king, Lr, lear, nudity, performance

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Edgar and Kingship in the ThreeKing Lears

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1999.html#_Edgar_and_Kingship

  Stoll, Abraham. "Edgar and Kingship in the ThreeKing Lears."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)22 (1999). Stoll explores the different ideas of kingship in the Tate, Quarto, and Folio versions ofKing Learand constructs his own reading kingship based on all these sources:

  keywords: folio, king, kingship, Lr, lear, quarto, tate

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• King LearBeyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family

  http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9310/schwehn.html

  Schwehn, Mark R. "King LearBeyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family."First Things36 (October 1993): 25-33. A thematic approach toKing Learfocussing on the love relationship between parent and child:

  keywords: Lr, king, lear, family, love

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• King Learand the Culture of Justice

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/MORAL%20SHAKES-3.txt

  Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Learand the Culture of Justice." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, 1997. Schneider re-evaluates reading the character of King Lear as a victim:

  keywords: culture, king, Lr, lear, victim

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• King Learin Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/schnlear.html

  Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Learin Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes."Early Modern Literary Studies1.1 (1995): 3.1-49. Schneider disagrees with the modern idea that Shakespeare's is a timeless genius of human nature and readsKing Learin the specific context of the time in which it was written and in terms of Elizabethan conceptions of death:

  keywords: death, Lr, lear, king

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Lear's Lapse: ForeshadowingKing Lear I. i.

  http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/lear.html

  Locket, Joseph. "Lear's Lapse: Foreshadowings inKing LearI.i."Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, Positions, 1996. Locket discusses the early signs inKing Learthat point towards the eventual dissolution of Lear's kingdom into social chaos:

  keywords: Lr, lear, king, social

  valid as of 2005-10-20

• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-2/sohmlear.htm

  Sohmer, Steve. "The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare'sKing Lear."Early Modern Literary Studies5.2 (1999): 2.1-17. Sohmer analyzes the dates inKing Learto provide evidence that the lunar calendar was one of Shakespeare's sources and suggests the possibility that the play was performed for King James I on December 26, 1606 as well as the significance of this date:

  keywords: calendar, date, early modern, james, king, Lr, lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• TheKing LearQuarto in Rehearsal and Performance

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/Q1LEAR%20PERFORM.txt

  Richman, David. "TheKing LearQuarto in Rehearsal and Performance." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Richman discusses performing from the quarto, rather than the recommended folio or conflated versions ofKing Lear:

  keywords: archive, folio, king, Lr, lear, performance, quarto

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• TwoLears For Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/TWOLEARS%20FOR_TV.txt

  Cook, Hardy M. "TwoLears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Cook compares two versions ofKing Lear-- Jonathan Miller's 1982 version with Michael Hordern as Lear for the series "The Shakespeare Plays" and Michael Elliott's with Lawrence Olivier.

  keywords: king, Lr, lear, performance, television

  valid as of 2005-09-08