Concepts of Nature in Shakespeare's "King Lear"

Concepts of Nature in Shakespeare's

Author: Olga Nikitina

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2007-03-05

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 3638614107

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, "King Lear" is remarkable for its vastness. Its largeness and expansiveness have been dwelt on by many critics. What gives King Lear its large dimensions is mostly its preoccupation with nature in all its vastness. Nature plays in it as great a role as in no other of Shakespeare’s plays. ‘Nature’, indeed, serves as a ‘key-word’ of the drama.

Shakespeare and the Natural Condition

Shakespeare and the Natural Condition PDF

Author: Geoffrey Bush

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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"In a remarkably ambitious and original book, Geoffrey Bush has treated Shakespeare's attitude toward nature in his plays, culminating in Hamlet and King Lear. His method is artful and highly effective : the book's structure is impressionistic -- the author circles around his subject in a spiral, touching, in each revolution, once more on themes he has mentioned earlier : comedy and the conventions of comedy vs. tragedy and its conventions ; the hero vs. the fool ; the certainty of comedy vs. the ambiguity of tragedy ; Nature and Christianity."--Book cover.

On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature

On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature PDF

Author: Kim Paffenroth

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 135020322X

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Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist with the author of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences between the thinking of these two figures on the themes of love, language, nature and reason. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see their worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.

Shakespeare and the Nature of Man

Shakespeare and the Nature of Man PDF

Author: Theodore Spencer

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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Presenting Shakespeare's plays from both a historical and philosophical point of view. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida.

Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy

Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy PDF

Author: Alex Schulman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-07-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0748682422

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What were Shakespeare's politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare's plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others. This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. From Shakespeare's interpretation of ancient and medieval politics to his wrestling with issues of legitimacy, religious toleration, family conflict, and economic change, Alex Schulman shows how Shakespeare produces a fascinating map of modern politics at its crisis-filled birth. As a result, there are brand new readings of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Richard II and Henry IV, parts I and II , The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure.

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