Lear’s Other Shadow proposes a cultural history of King Leir/Lear’s queen, beginning with pre-Shakespearean versions of the archetypal tale, through Shakespeare’s dramatic retelling, and in dozens of lively post-Shakespearean adaptations on stage, page, and screen that in one way or another restore the wife and queen that Shakespeare all but excised from his version of the ancient story.
Lear’s Other Shadow proposes a cultural history of King Leir/Lear’s queen, beginning with pre-Shakespearean versions of the archetypal tale, through Shakespeare’s dramatic retelling, and in dozens of lively post-Shakespearean adaptations on stage, page, and screen that in one way or another restore the wife and queen that Shakespeare all but excised from his version of the ancient story.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
THOMAS G. OLSEN is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where he taught courses in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and book history. He is editor of The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (2004) and Tales for Shakespeare: Stories That Inspired the Plays (2019). His articles and reviews have appeared in SEL, Prose Studies, The Yale Library Gazette, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Shakespeare Yearbook, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Reformation, Annali d’Italianistica, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and elsewhere.
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Acknowledgments A Brief Note on Texts and Terminology Introduction Toward a Cultural History of Queen Lear
Chapter 1 The King Leir Legend Before Shakespeare Chapter 2 Queen Lear in King Lear
Chapter 3 King Lear’s Other Shadow: Staging the Absent Queen Chapter 4 Fire Us Forth on Fox TV: The Queen on Screen
Chapter 5 Reviving Queen Lear in Modern Fiction
Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Quality of Nothing
Appendix Works Briefly Mentioned in Chapters 1-6
Notes
Bibliography Acknowledgments xi A Brief Note on Texts and Terminology xiii Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Queen Lear 1 1 The King Leir Legend before Shakespeare 25 2 Queen Lear in King Lear 35 3 King Lear’s Other Shadow: Staging the Absent Queen 51 4 Fire Us Forth on Fox TV: The Queen on Screen 89 5 Reviving Queen Lear in Modern Fiction 135 Conclusion: The Quality of Nothing 179 Appendix: Works Briefly Mentioned in Chapters 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 225 Index 237
Acknowledgments A Brief Note on Texts and Terminology Introduction Toward a Cultural History of Queen Lear
Chapter 1 The King Leir Legend Before Shakespeare Chapter 2 Queen Lear in King Lear
Chapter 3 King Lear’s Other Shadow: Staging the Absent Queen Chapter 4 Fire Us Forth on Fox TV: The Queen on Screen
Chapter 5 Reviving Queen Lear in Modern Fiction
Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Quality of Nothing
Appendix Works Briefly Mentioned in Chapters 1-6
Notes
Bibliography Acknowledgments xi A Brief Note on Texts and Terminology xiii Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Queen Lear 1 1 The King Leir Legend before Shakespeare 25 2 Queen Lear in King Lear 35 3 King Lear’s Other Shadow: Staging the Absent Queen 51 4 Fire Us Forth on Fox TV: The Queen on Screen 89 5 Reviving Queen Lear in Modern Fiction 135 Conclusion: The Quality of Nothing 179 Appendix: Works Briefly Mentioned in Chapters 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 225 Index 237
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