University Press of America
Pages: 328
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-2466-4 • Paperback • March 2004 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
Mark A. McDonald is Adjunct Faculty Member at Oakland Community College.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: The Discovery of Nature and King Lear
Chapter 3 On Ancient Ceremonial Monarchy and the Opening Scene of Lear: The Family and the Origin of Ceremonial Monarchy; The Destruction of the Ceremonial Monarchy; The Opening Scene of Lear: The Love Test; The Answer of Cordelia and the Great Rage of
Chapter 4 The Subplot Family of Gloucester: The First Soliloquy of Edmund; The Deception of Gloucester; The Rise of Edmund and the Escape of Edgar
Chapter 5 The Fool and the Earl of Kent: On Kent; The Fool and his Practical Teaching; The Failure of Albany; The Teaching of the Fool at the Approach of the Storm
Chapter 6 On Act Three of King Lear: Lear in the Storm; The Fool's Prophesy of Merlin's Prophesy; On III, iii; On III, iv; On III, v: The Betrayal of Gloucester; III, vi: Lear Mad at the House of Gloucester; III, vii: The Blinding of Gloucester
Chapter 7 On Act IV: IV, i: The Despair of Gloucester and the Enlistment of Edgar; IV, ii: The Argument of Goneril and Albany; On IV, iii and the Question of the French Invasion; IV, iv: The Doctor; IV, vi: a) The Counter-deception of Gloucester; IV, vi: b) T
Chapter 8 On the Final Act: V, i: The English Camp and the Plot of Edmund; V, ii: Ripeness is All; V, iii: a) Lear and Cordelia Captured; V, iii: b) The Defeat of Edmund and the Apocalyptic Conclusion of Lear; Conclusion
Chapter 9 Appendices: The Word Nature in King Lear; On the Question of the Presence of the Duke of Burgundy in King Lear; On the Tripartite Division of the Kingdom in King Lear; The Word Fortune in King Lear; Geoffrey of Mo
Chapter 10 Notes; Bibliography; Index