What becomes of the broken-hearted: King Lear and the dissociation of sensibility

Shakespeare Survey

Volumn , Issue 55, 2002, Pages 53-65

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References (44)

1. See the entry 'vampires' in Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford, 2000), p. 374
2. The source of this story is William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum Anglicarum (c. 1200), book V, chapter 24, translated by Joseph Stevenson, The Church Historians of England, volume IV (London, 1861). The text is available on-line at: 〈http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/ williamofnewburgh-five. html#24〉
3. Quoted from E. K. Chambers, 'The Court', Shakespeare's England, eds. various (Oxford, 1917), 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 79-111 (p. 87)
4. See I. H. Jeayes, ed., Letters of Philip Gawdy (London, 1906), p. 103
5. For discussion see Michael Neill, '"What Strange Riddle's This?" Deciphering 'Tis Pity She's a Whore', in Michael Neill, ed., John Ford: Critical Re-visions (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 153-79
6. and Michael Neill, 'New Light on "The Truth" in The Broken Heart", Notes and Queries, n.s. 22 (1975), 249-50
7. See 'On Margaret Radcliffe', Ben Jonson: Poems, ed. Ian Donaldson (London, 1975), p. 24
8. John Donne, 'The Dampe', Poetical Works, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (Oxford, 1929), p. 57
9. Neill, '"What Strange Riddle's This?"', 156
10. See also Michael Neill, Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy (Oxford, 1997)
11. For a challenging discussion of the separation between medicine and spiritual healing see Gillian Rose, Love's Work (London, 1995)
12. For a broader discussion of anatomy and dissection see Jonathan Sawday, The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture (London and New York, 1995)
13. See also Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body (London, 1984)
14. nd edition, p. 807, 2033-5
15. The first Quarto text reads: 'Then let them anotomize Regan, see what breeds about her/Hart is there any cause in nature that makes this hardnes'. King Lear Q1 (1608), Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition, eds. Michael J. B. Allen and Kenneth Muir (Berkeley, 1981), p. 687. Subsequent references to Shakespeare's plays are readings taken from these facsimile editions, although line references are supplied, for convenience, from the Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor Oxford edition, referring, for King Lear, to their edited text of the Folio edition
16. St John 12:40 quoted from Cranmer's 1539 translation, The English Hexapla: Exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures (London, 1841). Jesus appears to be quoting the lines from Isaiah VI, 10, which the authorized version translates as 'Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart.' The New English Bible translates these lines as 'This people's wits are dulled, / their ears are deafened and their eyes blinded, / so that they cannot see with their eyes / nor listen with their ears / nor understand with their wits.' The shift to wits points to the difficulty of translating hearts
17. The debates rumble on from P. W K. Stone, The Textual History of King Lear (London, 1980)
18. Peter W. M. Blayney, The Texts of 'King Lear' and their Origins, i. Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto (Cambridge, 1982)
19. and, Gary Taylor and Michael Warren, eds., The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of 'King Lear' (Oxford, 1983)
20. For a succinct account, see John Jones, Shakespeare at Work (Oxford, 1995)
21. Jones, Shakespeare at Work, p. 234
22. Compare the commentary in King Lear, ed. R. A. Foakes (Walton-on-Thames, 1997), p. 385
23. Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of King Lear (Newark, 1972), p. 311
24. Rosenberg, The Masks of King Lear, p. 311
25. Lily B. Campbell, Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes: Slaves of Passion (Cambridge, 1930), especially chapter 14, 'King Lear: A Tragedy of Wrath in Old Age', pp. 175-207
26. Ingenious commentaries are offered by a number of editors of the play. Discussion of the button can be found in Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of King Lear and in Philip C. McGuire, 'Open Silences and the Ending(s) of King Lear', Speechless Dialect: Shakespeare's Open Silence (Berkeley, 1985), pp. 97-121
27. See also Nicholas Brooke, 'The Ending of King Lear', Shakespeare 1564-1964, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Providence, Rhode Island, 1964), pp. 71-87
28. and John Shaw, 'King Lear: The Final Lines', Essays in Criticism, 16 (July 1966), 261-7
29. Ed. Horace Howard Furness, A New Various Edition of Shakespeare: King Lear (New York, 1963) (reprint of the original 1880 edition)
30. Furness quotes The Quarterly Review (April, 1833), p. 197
31. See, for example, Thelma Nelson Greenfield, 'The Clothing Motif in King Lear', Shakespeare Quarterly, 5 (1954), 281-6
32. Dean Frye, 'The Context of Lear's Unbuttoning', English Literary History, 32 (1965), 17-31
33. and Maurice Charney, '"We put fresh garments on him": nakedness and clothes in King Lear', in Some Facets of King Lear, eds. Rosalie L. Colie and F. T. Flahiff (London, 1974), pp. 77-88
34. F. David Hoeniger, Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance (London and Toronto, 1992), p. 146
35. See for example, Charles Singer, Galen on Anatomical Procedures: Translation of the Surviving Books (Oxford, 1956), pp. 178-9
36. Hoeniger, Medicine and Shakespeare, p. 149
37. William Harvey, The Anatomical Exercises: De Motu Cordis and De Circulatione Sanguinis in English Translation, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (New York, 1995), p. vii
38. For some discussion of Harvey's impact and reception, see Robert G. Frank, 'The Image of Harvey in Commonwealth and Restoration England', William Harvey and his Age, ed. Jerome J. Bylebyl (Baltimore and London, 1979), pp. 103-43
39. William Harvey, The Anatomical Exercises, p. 155
40. Thomas Browne, 'Of the Picture Describing the Death of Cleopatra', Pseudodoxia Epidemica, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Charles Sayle (Edinburgh, 1927), 3 volumes, vol. 2, pp. 235-6 (Book 5, chapter 12)
41. Citing the Loeb Classical Library edition, Seneca, Tragedies vol. 1, trans. Frank Justus Miller (Cambridge, 1979)
42. and Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies, trans. Thomas Newton (1581) (London and New York, 1927), 2 vols., vol. 1, p. 51
43. Thomas Preston, Cambises, quoted from Specimens of Pre-Shakesperean Drama, ed. John Matthews Manly (Boston, 1897), 2 vols., vol. 2, p. 207
44. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Greate, the second part, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. C. F. Tucker Brooke (Oxford, 1910), p. 134, 4483-9. (5.3.91-7 in the Oxford edition edited by David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen.)