Promised end : the last scene of king lear / by Sherman Hawkins.

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.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

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 Lear's last lines; the whole meaning of Shakespeare's 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 King's 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, Hawkins deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches: close scrutiny of the rival texts and comparison with the play's 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.

Contents:

Intro

Praise for Sherman Hawkins

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5275-3799-4

OCLC:

1183030198