ANN THOMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She has published a number of articles on Shakespeare, an edition of The Taming of the Shrew and two books, Shakespeare's Chaucer and (with John O. Thompson) Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor.

• General Editor's PrefaceA Note on Text and ReferencesIntroductionPART 1: SURVEYFormal, Structural and Generic ApproachesHistorical and Social ApproachesReligious and Philosophical ApproachesApproaches to Staging and PerformanceSpecialized Approaches, Key Words, Scenes and MetaphorsPART 2: APPRAISAL: THE GREATNESS OF `KING LEAR'The Literary Canon and the Classic TextChallenging the Evaluation of King LearDisplacing the Value ArgumentAfterwordReferencesIndex.

ANN THOMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She has published a number of articles on Shakespeare, an edition of The Taming of the Shrew and two books, Shakespeare's Chaucer and (with John O. Thompson) Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor.

• General Editor's PrefaceA Note on Text and ReferencesIntroductionPART 1: SURVEYFormal, Structural and Generic ApproachesHistorical and Social ApproachesReligious and Philosophical ApproachesApproaches to Staging and PerformanceSpecialized Approaches, Key Words, Scenes and MetaphorsPART 2: APPRAISAL: THE GREATNESS OF `KING LEAR'The Literary Canon and the Classic TextChallenging the Evaluation of King LearDisplacing the Value ArgumentAfterwordReferencesIndex.

ANN THOMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She has published a number of articles on Shakespeare, an edition of The Taming of the Shrew and two books, Shakespeare's Chaucer and (with John O. Thompson) Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor.

• General Editor's PrefaceA Note on Text and ReferencesIntroductionPART 1: SURVEYFormal, Structural and Generic ApproachesHistorical and Social ApproachesReligious and Philosophical ApproachesApproaches to Staging and PerformanceSpecialized Approaches, Key Words, Scenes and MetaphorsPART 2: APPRAISAL: THE GREATNESS OF `KING LEAR'The Literary Canon and the Classic TextChallenging the Evaluation of King LearDisplacing the Value ArgumentAfterwordReferencesIndex.