Poor Tom living King Lear
King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king-Edgar-has often seemed little more than a blank, ignored and unloved, a belated moralizer who, try as he may...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42525329*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prelude: the hanging man
- Introduction
- Interlude: the stranger
- Scene 1: into the hollow
- Interlude: job redux
- Scene 2: enter Tom
- Interlude: Tom is ...?
- Scene 3: Tom's voices
- Interlude: to be allegory
- Scene 4: Tom's places
- Interlude: history man
- Scene 5: lurk, lurk
- Interlude: living King Lear
- Scene 6: shuttered genealogy
- Interlude: decreated
- Scene 7: fool to sorrow
- Interlude: humanist and posthumanist: a dialogue
- Scene 8: to the edge of the cliff
- Interlude: the binding
- Scene 9: fallen, or not?
- Interlude: everyman
- Scene 10: alive, or dead?
- Interlude: the pending world
- Scene 11: dark places
- Interlude: Jacob and Esau
- Scene 12: departures
- Conclusion: Shakespeare's radical.
