Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare's King Lear with The tempest : the discovery of nature and the recovery of classical natural right / Mark A. McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Mark A. (Mark Allen)

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2004.

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Details

Description

ix, 317 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Although he is considered to be the world's greatest dramatist, Shakespeare seems to have escaped the detection of thinkers on politics and the philosophic tradition of thought on man. Shakespeare'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."--Jacket

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Lear, King of England (Legendary character), in literature
• Natural law in literature
• Nature in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-305) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Discovery of Nature and King Lear -- On Ancient Ceremonial Monarchy and the Opening Scene of Lear -- The Family and the Origin of Ceremonial Monarchy -- The Destruction of the Ceremonial Monarchy -- The Opening Scene of Lear: The Love Test -- The Answer of Cordelia and the Great Rage of Lear -- The Subplot Family of Gloucester -- The First Soliloquy of Edmund -- The Deception of Gloucester -- The Rise of Edmund and the Escape of Edgar -- The Fool and the Earl of Kent -- On Kent -- The Fool and his Practical Teaching -- The Failure of Albany -- The Teaching of the Fool at the Approach of the Storm -- On Act III of King Lear -- Lear in the Storm -- The Fool's Prophesy of Merlin's Prophesy -- On III, iii -- On III, iv -- On III, v: The Betrayal of Gloucester -- III, vi: Lear Mad at the House of Gloucester -- III, vii: The Blinding of Gloucester -- On Act IV -- IV, i: The Despair of Gloucester and the Enlistment of Edgar -- IV, ii: The Argument of Goneril and Albany -- On IV, iii and the Question of the French Invasion -- IV, iv: The Doctor -- IV, vi: a) The Counter-Deception of Gloucester -- IV, vi: b) The Madness of Lear at Dover -- The Slaying of Oswald -- The Awakening of Lear -- On the Final Act -- V, i: The English Camp and the Plot of Edmund -- V, ii: Ripeness is All -- V, iii: a) Lear and Cordelia Captured -- V, iii: b) The Defeat of Edmund and the Apocalyptic Conclusion of Lear -- The Word nature in King Lear -- On the Question of the Presence of the Duke of Burgundy in King Lear.

ISBN

0761824669 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002040820

OCLC

• 50810263
• SCSB-10738208

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library