Keyword

King Lear

Description: King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about an aging king whose division of his kingdom leads to familial and political catastrophe.

Primary topic: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (68%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q181598

OpenAlex ID: keywords/king-lear

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

1999 · Donna R. Cheney, Harold Bloom · Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 680

:Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England

1989 · Jane Donawerth · Sixteenth Century Journal · 504

Politeness theory and Shakespeare's four major tragedies

1989 · Roger Brown, Albert Gilman · Language in Society · 493

Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

1991 · Bruce McLeod, Stephen J. Greenblatt · The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association · 485

The Practice and Representation of Reading in England

2008 · James Raven, Helen Small, et al. · 423

At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 303

Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays by Shakespeare

1987 · Stanley Cavell, David Schalkwyk · 285

Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

1985 · John F. Andrews, Jonathan Dollimore · The American Historical Review · 249

Shakespeare in Parts

2007 · Simon Palfrey, Tiffany Stern · Oxford University Press eBooks · 248

Shakespearean Tragedy. Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

1906 · C. H. Herford, A. C. Bradley · The Modern Language Review · 248

Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

1976 · Stanley Cavell · 230

Thinking with Literature

2016 · Terence Cave · Oxford University Press eBooks · 214

The Vehement Passions

2002 · Philip Fisher · Princeton University Press eBooks · 210

Hamlet versus Lear

1993 · R. A. Foakes · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 172

Meaning by Shakespeare

2003 · Terence Hawkes · Routledge eBooks · 166

Circumstantial Shakespeare

2015 · Lorna Hutson · Oxford University Press eBooks · 164

Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales

2004 · Philip Schwyzer · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 161

The Division of the kingdoms : Shakespeare's two versions of King Lear

1983 · Gary Taylor, Michael Warren, et al. · Oxford University Press eBooks · 157

Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture

1993 · Robert Cantwell · 140

Adaptations of Shakespeare : a critical anthology of plays from the seventeenth century to the present

2000 · Daniel Fischlin, Mark S. Foster · 132

The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

1995 · Jean I. Marsden · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 130

Green Shakespeare

2006 · Gabriel Egan · Routledge eBooks · 116

Shakespeare's tragic heroes : slaves of passion

2009 · Lily B. Campbell · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 114

Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare

2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 112

:Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture

1997 · Marie Michelle Strah · Sixteenth Century Journal · 109

Works count: 9,197

Citation count: 22,350