Introduction / Harold Bloom King Lear / Northrop Frye The emotional landscape of King Lear / Arthur Kirsch "Is this the promised end?" death and dying in King Lear / David Bevington King Lear: the tragic disjunction of wisdom and power / Paul A. Cantor Lear's system / Ralph Berry King Lear / Frank Kermode Lear's three shamings / Robert Lanier Reid Naked Lear / Millicent Bell Performance and text: King Lear / R.A. Foakes
