Contents
- Introduction
- The Text of King Lear
- A Note on the Text
- Selected Textual Variants
- Sources
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- Anonymous * The True Chronicle History of King Lear and his three daughters, 1605
- John Higgins * The Mirror for Magistrates, 1574
- Raphael Holinshed * Chronicles, 1586
- Edmund Spenser * The Faerie Queene, 1590
- Sir Philip Sidney * The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1590
- James VI of Scotland (later James I of Britain) * The True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598
- James I * Basilikon Doron, 1603
- Samuel Harsnett * A Declaration of Egregioius Popish Impostures, 1603
- William Camden * Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, 1606
- POSSIBLE SOURCES
- The case of Cordell Annesley and her father, Bryan, 1603
- Geoffrey of Monmouth * Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1135
- Criticism
- Nahum Tate * The History of King Lear, 1681
- Samuel Johnson * Notes on King Lear, 1681
- Charles Lamb * "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare," 1810
- William Hazlitt * "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: King Lear," 1817
- A. C. Bradley * Shakespearean Tragedy, 1904
- Jan Kott * Shakespeare Our Contemporary, 1964
- Peter Brook * The Empty Space, 1968
- Michael Warren * "Quarto and Folio King Lear and the Interpretation of Albany and Edgar," 1978
- Lynda E. Boose * "The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare," 1982
- Janet Adelman * Suffocating Mothers, 1992
- Margot Heinemann * "Demystifying the Mystery of State: King Lear and the World Upside Down," 1992
- R. A. Foakes * Hamlet versus Lear, 1993
- Stanley Cavell * Must We Mean What We Say?, 2002
- ADAPTATIONS AND RESPONSES
- Nahum Tate * The History of King Lear, 1681
- John Keats * "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again," 1818
- Edward Bond * Lear, 1971
- Selected Bibliography
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