1. Jane Smiley, “Taking It All Back,” in The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work, ed. Marie Arana (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 387–92.
2. See also Julie Sanders, “‘Rainy Days Mean Difficult Choices’: Jane Smiley’s Appropriation of King Lear in A Thousand Acres,” in Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation, ed. Julie Sanders (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2001), 191–216.
3. See, for instance, Caroline Cakebread, “Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres,” in Shakespeare and Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer (New York: Routledge, 1999), 85–102.
4. Dominick LaCapra, Writing History, Writing Trauma (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 22.
5. Stanley Cavell, “The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear,” Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 39–123. References to the text are cited parenthetically.