The following guide is available for download here.
Guide to Critics & Collections (in order of treatment in the Seminar):
The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare’s Two Versions of King Lear, ed. Gary Taylor and Michael Warren (Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1983).
Robert Clare, “’Who is it that can tell me who I am?’: The Theory of Authorial Revision between the Quarto and the Folio Texts of King Lear,” The Library, 6th series, 17 (1995), 34-59.
William Elton, King Lear and the Gods (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1966).
Stephen Greenblatt, “King Lear and the Exorcists,” in Shakespearean Negotiations (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1989), 94-128.
Rosalie Colie, KL & the Crisis of the Aristocracy,” in Facets of KL (1974).
Richard Strier, Resistant Structures (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1995), ch. 7 (“Impossible Radicalism: Shakespeare and Disobedience”).
Walter Cohen, Drama of a Nation (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1985), ch. 6.
Michael Ignatieff, The Needs of Strangers (New York: Viking, 1985), ch. 1.
Judy Kronenfeld, King Lear and The Naked Truth (Durham: Duke U Press, 1998), ch. 6-7.
Robert Heilman, This Great Stage (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U, 1948), ch. 2.
Paul Alpers, “King Lear and the Theory of ‘The Sight Pattern,’” in Reuben Brower, ed., In Defense of Reading (New York: Dutton, 1962), 133-152.
Stanley Cavell, “The Avoidance of Love,” in Disowning Knowledge (New York: Cambridge U Press, 1987), 39-124.
Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers (New York: Routledge, 1992), ch. 5.
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare (New York: Riverhead, 1998), ch. 25.
Gail Paster, “Minded Like the Weather” (ms).
Andreas Höfele, Stage, Stake and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare’s Theatre (2011), ch. 5.