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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

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

  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

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

  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

  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'sHow Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth It Is to Have a Thankless Childis his parody ofKing Learas 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'sA Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures(1603) was used by Shakespeare as his source for the names of demons inKing Lear. Locate this text at theFurness 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 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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• EnjoyingKing Learby William Shakespeare

  http://www.pathguy.com/kinglear.htm

  Ed Friedlander has created this non-scholarly site intended as a resource for students and general readers ofKing Lear. This site is wonderfully laid out for the beginner enthusiast:

  keywords: king, lear, lr

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• King Lear(Folio)

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Lr/F1/Scene/

  The Internet Shakespeare Editions'old-spelling edition of the Folio (1623), available either as formatted in the original, by pages; in acts and scenes; or as a single long file:

  keywords: edition, folio, king, lear, lr, scenes, 1623

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• King Lear(Quarto text)

  http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Lr/Q1/Scene/

  The Internet Shakespeare Editions'old-spelling edition of theKing LearQuarto (1608), available either as formatted in the original, by pages; in acts and scenes or as a single long file:

  keywords: edition, king, lear, lr, quarto, scenes, 1608

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• King Lear: Quarto 2

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=lear_q2&PagePosition=1

  M. VVilliam [Shake]-speare: his true chronicle history of the life and death ofKing Lear and his three daughters, with the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester,and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1608 [i.e. 1619]. (King Lear):

  keywords: chronicle, death, history, king, lear, life, london, lr

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• 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

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

  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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• King Learhome

  http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm

  "The Complete Text of Shakespeare'sKing Learwith Quarto and Folio Variations, Annotations, and Commentary" is provided by Dr. Larry A. Brown:

  keywords: folio, king, lear, lr, quarto

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• 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

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

  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

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

  valid as of 2005-10-20

• Pope's Lear

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

  The life and death ofKing Lear. In The works of Shakespear : in six volumes / collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, in the Strand, 1723-1725. (King Lear):

  keywords: death, king, lear, life, london, lr

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Shakespeare Lectures

  http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lectures.htm

  Johnson, Ian. Lectures:Studies in ShakespeareMalaspina University-College, Nanaimo, Spring 2002. Course lectures on numerous Shakespeare plays includingHenry IV, Part 1,Henry V,As You Like It,Twelfth Night,Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth,The Tempest,Antony and Cleopatra,Richard II, andRichard IIIas well as Shakespeare background material:

  keywords: ant, anthony, cleopatra, ayl, as you like it, lectures, english, ham, hamlet, 1h4, h8, henry, lr, king, lear, mac, macbeth, r2, r3, richard, tempest, tmp, twelfth night, tn

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• Tate's Lear

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

  Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.The History ofKing Lear: Acted at the Duke's Theatre. London: Printed for E. Flesher, 1681. This text is made available by the University of Pennsylvania:

  keywords: history, king, lear, lr, london, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• 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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• The Tragedy of King Lear

  http://quarles.unbc.ca/lisad_html/index.html

  A hypertext edition ofKing Learby UNBC student Lisa Drysdale. It includes a short introduction with a summary of what she sees as the play's main themes:

  keywords: edition, king, lear, lr

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• 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

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

  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

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

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Weather in Shakespheare -King Lear

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/shakespeare_lear.shtml

  You might not expect to find a commentary onKing Learat the BBC Weather web site but here it is - "Weather in Shakespeare -King Lear." This page also contains links to weather explanations concerningMacbeth,The Tempest, andSonnet 18:

  keywords: king, lear, lr, weather, pathetic fallacy

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-13