Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the Recovery of Classical Natural RightShakespeare's 'King Lear' with 'The Tempest' is Mark McDonald's inquiry into the political philosophy of William Shakespeare through a reading of King Lear with reference to The Tempest. McDonald follows an argument connecting King Lear to the question of natural right and to changes in the orders of the western world at the beginnings of modernity. |
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Inhalt
On Ancient Ceremonial Monarchy and the Opening Scene of Lear | 11 |
B The Destruction of the Ceremonial Monarchy | 16 |
The Love Test | 19 |
D The Answer of Cordelia and the Great Rage of Lear | 25 |
The Subplot Family of Gloucester | 37 |
A The First Soliloquy of Edmund | 39 |
B The Deception of Gloucester | 47 |
C The Rise of Edmund and the Escape of Edgar | 55 |
G The Slaying of Oswald | 169 |
The Awakening of Lear | 171 |
On the Final Act | 175 |
Ripeness is All | 177 |
a Lear and Cordelia Captured | 184 |
b The Defeat of Edmund and the Apocalyptic Conclusion of Lear | 188 |
CONCLUSION | 205 |
Uses of the Word nature in King Lear from Bartletts Concordance | 211 |
The Fool and the Earl of Kent | 63 |
A On Kent | 64 |
B The Fool and His Practical Teaching | 72 |
C The Failure of Albany | 82 |
D The Teaching of the Fool at the Approach of the Storm | 84 |
On Act III of King Lear | 91 |
B The Fools Prophecy of Merlins Prophecy | 98 |
C On III iii | 103 |
D On III iv | 104 |
The Betrayal of Gloucester | 121 |
Lear Mad at the House of Gloucester | 122 |
The Blinding of Gloucester | 131 |
On Act IV | 137 |
The Argument of Goneril and Albany | 142 |
C On IV iii and the Question of the French Invasion | 145 |
The Doctor | 152 |
a The CounterDeception of Gloucester | 154 |
b The Madness of Lear at Dover | 158 |
Appendix B | 215 |
On the Tripartite Division of the Kingdom | 218 |
Instances of the Word fortune in King Lear from Bartletts Concordance | 219 |
On the Connection of Shakespeares King Lear and The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth | 221 |
On the Origin of the Arthurian Legend and Gildas the Most Ancient British Author | 222 |
Notes to the Preface | 225 |
Notes to the Introduction | 226 |
Notes to Chapter One | 231 |
Notes to Chapter Two | 243 |
Notes to Chapter Three | 252 |
Notes to Chapter Four | 259 |
Notes to Chapter Five | 275 |
Notes to Chapter Six | 290 |
Notes to the Conclusion | 298 |
Bibliography | 299 |
| 307 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the Recovery of Classical Natural Right |
| Autor/in | Mark Allen McDonald |
| Verlag | University Press of America, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0761824669, 9780761824664 |
| Länge | 317 Seiten |
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