Table of Contents

Series Preface
Introduction

I. Language in Print
II. Language: Forms and Uses
III. Language Through Time
IV. Writing and Language Skills

Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

Promotional Information

A study aid which explores and dissects King Lear's themes, issues, motifs and language, allowing students to engage critically with this major tragedy.

About the Author

Jean E. Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, USA. Author of Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation (with Phyllis Rackin, 1994) and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy (2001), she has edited six collections of essays, including the four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works (2003). General Editor of the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare, Howard is Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Library Fellowships. At Syracuse University she received the Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and at Columbia University the University Graduate Mentoring Award.

Reviews

How I wish I could take a class with Jean Howard! She is the perfect guide to the complexities and demands of King Lear. Throughout, this book is wise and inviting, subtle and engaging, provocative and helpful. This is a perfect book for students – but not only for students: everyone will learn from and be made to think by reading it, however well we suppose ourselves to know this astonishing play.
*Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA*