Some Facets of King Lear: Essays in Prismatic Criticism

by Rosalie Littell Colie

Book Overview

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis.

The essays in this book - forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' - were written because their authors wanted to understand something specific about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802062792
• ISBN13: 9780802062796
• Release Date: December 1974
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"