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"And that's true too" : new essays on King Lear / edited by Francois Laroque, Pierre Iselin and Sophie Alatorre.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of provocative new essays, mainly by French scholars, on Shakespeare's great tragedy, focuses on linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical issues Other specific attention paid to the dimension of early modern desire, sexuality and gender relations. King Lear is here re-examined in the perspective of Lucrece, Montaigne, Renaissance medicine and anatomy, the grotesque, myth and imagery as well as negative theology. It is hoped that this will serve to update our approaches to this ...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Language and style
- pt. II. Myths, monsters and the grotesque
- pt. III. Philosophy, satire
- pt. IV. Exile, sexuality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41327-9
- 9786612413278
- 1-4438-1587-X
- OCLC:
- 823386141
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