Twentieth Century Interpretations of King Lear: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Janet Adelman (Editor)

Fifteen noted critics including A. C. Bradley, G. Wilson Knight, Maynard Mack, and Stephen Booth investigate aspects of the structure, themes, and staging of the Shakespearean tragedy

134 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1978

About the author

Janet Adelman was a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkley and Shakespeare scholar best known for her combination of psychoanalytic and feminist theory. She authored three major works on Shakespeare, including Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest (1992), Common Liar: An Essay on Antony & Cleopatra (1973) and Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice (2008), along with numerous articles and reviews. She was well respected as a teacher and as a member of the academic community both at Berkley, where she was the first woman to join the English Department, and nationally as a member of the Modern Language Association and the Shakespeare Association of America.
Adelman retired from Berkley in 2007 and sadly passed away in 2010 at the age of 69.