Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the Recovery of Classical Natural RightUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 317 Seiten 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. |
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... political scientists . Rousseau , and the French of his century , seem similarly not to have read the works of Shakespeare . The German thinkers of the nineteenth century direct an occasional comment especially toward Hamlet , and the ...
... political scientists . Rousseau , and the French of his century , seem similarly not to have read the works of Shakespeare . The German thinkers of the nineteenth century direct an occasional comment especially toward Hamlet , and the ...
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... Political Philosophy " helped us to begin to read The Tempest and Plato's Republic together . This first site led to ... political study can begin " not from the ' scientific ' understanding of political things , but from their ' natural ...
... Political Philosophy " helped us to begin to read The Tempest and Plato's Republic together . This first site led to ... political study can begin " not from the ' scientific ' understanding of political things , but from their ' natural ...
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... political philosophy- the questions of the nature of man and of the best sort of rule , or of the best regime . The plays also show a practical aspect- a treatment of England or a guiding of the fundamental direction of the West . This ...
... political philosophy- the questions of the nature of man and of the best sort of rule , or of the best regime . The plays also show a practical aspect- a treatment of England or a guiding of the fundamental direction of the West . This ...
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... political philosophy and set the principle of modernity . What seems to have occurred instead is the uncovering of nature and the setting of modernity on the pre - Socratic or anti - Socratic principle of the bodily nature . In ancient ...
... political philosophy and set the principle of modernity . What seems to have occurred instead is the uncovering of nature and the setting of modernity on the pre - Socratic or anti - Socratic principle of the bodily nature . In ancient ...
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... political condition " near to beast " ( III , iv , 105-112 ; II , iii , 9 ) .4 It is in the appearance of Edgar , who is disguised as a mad , near naked beggar , that Lear believes he sees " the thing itself , " the true human being ...
... political condition " near to beast " ( III , iv , 105-112 ; II , iii , 9 ) .4 It is in the appearance of Edgar , who is disguised as a mad , near naked beggar , that Lear believes he sees " the thing itself , " the true human being ...
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 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Albany Alulis Alvarez Alvis ancient answer appeal to nature appearance Arden edition Arden note Aristotle asks Berns blinding Britain called cause ceremonial monarchy character Child Rowland Christian cites Class on Shakespearean connection contrast Cordelia Cornwall custom daughters death disguise divestment Dover Edgar Edmund English Essays father fiend Folio Fool Fool's fortune France Furness edition Gentleman Gildas Gloucester Gloucester's gods Goneril Heilman human I,ii I,iv Ibid II,ii II,iv IV,vi Jesus justice Kent King Lear kingdom kingship Lear's love test Lucretius Machiavelli madness Merlin Montaigne Muir natural right Nature and Piety occurs offspring Oswald philosopher Piety in King Plato Plato's play Prince prophecy Prospero Quarto question reason Regan regarding Republic Richard II Right and History rule says seems sense Shakespeare Shakespearean Tragedy Socrates soliloquy soul speak statement storm Strauss teaching tells Tempest things thou thought Thoughts on Machiavelli tragic truth V,iii virtue wisdom word