Office and Duty in King Lear Shakespeare’s Political Theologies
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Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 149.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
24.11.2023
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
261
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/2 cm
Gewicht
468 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-031-40156-5
This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear , influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear ’s encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason , civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben’s models. Goneril’s treason shows the sovereign’s consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear’s crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book’s conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear ’s persistent association with the Holocaust.
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