Below you will find a large amount of texts and topics relevant to the play, as well as resources, which include links to outside sources, which may be used as guides, sources of information, etc. Click on each Section Title below to view the corresponding information.
Cavell, Stanley. "The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of
King Lear."
Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. 39-124.
Cox, Catherine S. "'An Excellent Thing in Woman': Virgo and Viragos in
King Lear."
Modern Philology 96.2(1998): 143-57.
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Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare and the Exorcists."
Shakespearean Negotiations. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988. 94-128.
de Grazia, Margreta. "The Ideology of Superfluous Things:
Lear as Period Piece."
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture. Ed. Margreta de Grazia, Peter Stallybrass, and Maureen Quilligan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Goldberg, Jonathan. "Perspectives: Dover Cliff and the Conditions of Representation."
Shakespeare's Tragedies. Ed. Susan Zimmerman. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 155-66.
Hager, Alan. "
Lear's Fool."
Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio- Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Vicki K. Janik. Wesport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 289-94.
Hammond, Paul. "James I's Homosexuality and the Revision of the Folio Text of
King Lear."
Notes & Queries 44.1(1997): 62-64.
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Kronenfeld, Judy.
King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998.
Rudnytsky, Peter L. "'The Darke and Vicious Place': The Dread of the Vagina in
King Lear."
Modern Philology 96.3(1999): 291-311.
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Shupack, Paul M. "Natural Justice and
King Lear."
Cardozo Studies in Law & Literature. 9.1(1997): 67-105.
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Spotswood, Jerald W. "Maintaining Hierarchy in The Tragedie of
King Lear."
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 38.2(1998): 265-80.
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