A sample of upcoming productions around the world.

Links Database: Keyword Lr

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

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

  Wylie, Jessica. "Faires and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context for King Lear." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Wylie explores the Celtic-pagan and Roman influences of and the interplay of these influences in King Lear:

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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

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

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

  Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy of King Lear." (Originally published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33.1 (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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• "The Thing Itself": Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability in King Lear

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

  Shurgot, Michael W. "'The Thing Itself': Staging Male Sexual Vulnerability in King 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 of King Lear:

  keywords: king, Lr, lear, nudity, performance

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• A Serpent's Tooth

  http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lear.html

  Richard Nathan's How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth It Is to Have a Thankless Child is his parody of King Lear as written for W. C. Fields:

  keywords: adaptation, king, Lr, lear, script

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=harsnett&PagePosition=1

  Samuel Harsnett's A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603) was used by Shakespeare as his source for the names of demons in King Lear. Locate this text at the Furness Collection:

  keywords: king, lear, Lr, demons

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Shakespeare's sources > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Edgar and Kingship in the Three King Lears

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

  Stoll, Abraham. "Edgar and Kingship in the Three King 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 of King Lear and constructs his own reading kingship based on all these sources:

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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

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

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

  Schwehn, Mark R. "King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family." First Things 36 (October 1993): 25-33. A thematic approach to King Lear focussing on the love relationship between parent and child:

  keywords: Lr, king, lear, family, love

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• King Lear and the Culture of Justice

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

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

  keywords: culture, king, Lr, lear, victim

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

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

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

  Schneider, Jr., Ben Ross. "King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes." Early Modern Literary Studies 1.1 (1995): 3.1-49. Schneider disagrees with the modern idea that Shakespeare's is a timeless genius of human nature and reads King Lear in the specific context of the time in which it was written and in terms of Elizabethan conceptions of death:

  keywords: death, Lr, lear, king

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Lear's Lapse: Foreshadowing King Lear I. i.

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

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

  keywords: Lr, lear, king, social

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-10-20

• The King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and Performance

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

  Richman, David. "The King Lear Quarto in Rehearsal and Performance." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies . Richman discusses performing from the quarto, rather than the recommended folio or conflated versions of King Lear:

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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear

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

  Sohmer, Steve. "The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (1999): 2.1-17. Sohmer analyzes the dates in King Lear to 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Two Lears For Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies

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

  Cook, Hardy M. "Two Lears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Cook compares two versions of King 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08