This volume provides "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about the challenging experience of King Lear. The coverage is compendious, the research up-to-date, and the essays rich with fresh insights.
- R. S. White, Professor of English, University of Western Australia, Australia,
This comprehensive approach makes <i>King Lear: A Critical Guide</i> a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates and those who teach them, as it suggests the multitude of reaction to <i>King Lear</i> over time, while also showing what can still be done within this vast tradition.
- William Rhodes, University of Virginia, Sixteenth Century Journal
Continuum Renaissance Drama offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.
New titles are now published under the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides series: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/arden-early-modern-drama-guides