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Duke University Press
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Taking King Lear as its central text, this book seriously questions
the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable
Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist
and deconstructionist critics, it suggests a theory of language and
interpretation that provides essential historical and linguistic
contexts for the key terms and concepts of the play. Opening the play up
to the implications of these contexts and this interpretive theory, the
book reveals much about Lear, English Reformation religious culture,
and the state of contemporary criticism.
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"An exciting, thoughtful, and challenging book.
Kronenfeld makes a strong case for the traditional Christian
moral framework of King Lear, contra the various
'radical Shakespears' of current criticism. She also
offers a subtle and powerful model of historical change."
— Debora Shuger, University of
California, Los Angeles.
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King Lear and the Naked Truth
is richly researched, deeply learned, and largely achieves
what it sets out to do. This is an important study from
which all readers will learn."
—
Ronald Knowles, Renaissance Quarterly
“[A] learned, intelligent, and interesting book. . . . [A] wide-ranging
knowledge of Renaissance religious and political commentary and of current
criticism is made available in a lucid and persuasive argument.”
—
Edward Pechter, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
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