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Promised end : the last scene of King Lear / by Sherman Hawkins.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2819 .H394 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, Sherman, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear--Criticism and interpretation.
- King Lear (Shakespeare, William).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Perhaps the most important, difficult, and unresolved issue in Shakespeare studies is the question of Lears last lines; the whole meaning of Shakespeares greatest and most controversial tragedy depends upon it. In the 1608 Quarto, it is 'O,o,o,o'--that zero to which the Fool compares Lear himself. In the 1623 Folio, the Kings last words are 'Look on her! Look, her lips! Look there, look there!' No one but Lear sees what he points us to envision. Is it epiphany or delusion? Is Lear's tragedy nihilistic or redemptive? In search of an answer, this book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches: close scrutiny of the rival texts and comparison with the plays sources, the unique double structure of Lear, its symbols and imagery, its visual and verbal scriptural allusions, even its numerology. The book enlists its readers in a quest for final meaning, not unlike the movement of the play itself towards Dover and the extreme verge of its imagined cliff, that high place where life borders upon death and earth meets sky and sea."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Katherine L. Hawkins, Daniel H. Hawkins, and Seth C. Hawkins
- Introduction
- Redeeming the text
- Rival texts : the folio vs quarto
- Redemption
- Lear's development : conversion
- Lear's development : education
- Edgar's development
- Gloucester's leap
- Promised end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1527535509
- 9781527535503
- OCLC:
- 1104650546
- Publisher Number:
- 99982194403
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