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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"King Lear"”.
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Pilgrimage Narrative: A Pattern for Heavenly Theatre in King Lear
… the pilgrimage narrative is deeply embedded in King Lear. I will then conclude that this pilgrimage narrative parallels in many respects the journey of Jesus Christ, and how this parallel lends itself to the creation of heavenly theatre. When interviewed, the Canadian director Robert LePage once …
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King Lear, Heidegger, and the Encounter with Things and Nothing
… study looks at how “nothing” manifests across King Lear in ways that evoke an immediate level of interpretive engagement with the world. Drawing heavily upon the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, I argue that this immediate level of experience is essential to the play’s articulation of the …
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… death at the end of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear to be both troubling and unjust. Despite original sources for the plot's happy ending and Cordelia's survival, Shakespeare consciously chooses to kill her. The question remains: why? I propose that due to the play's overt saturation with …
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In the Here and Then; Forms of Time, Chronotope and Trauerspiel In Gorboduc and King Lear
… in the English Renaissance dramas Gorboduc and King Lear are analyzed. The Tragedie of Gorboduc is discussed as an example of Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel and as a model of many elements found in Shakespeare's King Lear.</p>
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
<p>In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and King Lear, the relationship between the father and his children affects the progression and outcome of events. Goneril and Regan oppose Lear after Cordelia’s untimely rebellion and disownment. In The Tempest, Caliban desires to overthrow Prospero for freedom. …
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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
… both instantiate and complement this approach, learning from insights from the literary tradition while attending to the theological compass of the poetic. Part One sketches my methodological approach. Chapter 1 explores scholarship on Shakespeare and religion and notes that contemporary …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
… father-daughter relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest,’ this paper will investigate the existence of good male single parents: those who demonstrate positive qualities in playing their paternal roles in the lives of their daughters, in particular.
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A comparative analysis of the characters of two dramatic King Lears : Shakespeare and Bottomley
… of dramatic literature: Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife and William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The significant characters are Goneril and Regan, the “evil influence” in both plays; the two Lears, the “neutral influence” in both plays; and Hygd and Cordelia in King Lear’s Wife and King …
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"The forms of things unknown: The impact of Reginald Scot's skeptical treatise, ""The Discoverie of Witchcraft"", on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""King Lear"", and ""The Tempest"""
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:59:40Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
… paradoxical connection in <em>As You Like It, King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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Deconstructing Jan Kott's contemporary Shakespeare: an investigation of the criticisms of Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore
… concern is the close study of Shakespeare's King Lear in the context of Dollimore's and Sinfield's debate. Chapter One: 'Kott and Tillyard: Two Sides of the Same Conservative Coin?' outlines the main argument presented by Dollimore and Sinfield. Chapter Two: 'Kott's Formative Years: the …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although neo-Aristotelian moral philosophers locate the roots of their theories in Aristotle's Nicomachean …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… necessary to maintain it. Irina Anisimova-Vulf's King Lear at the Mossoviet Theatre (1958) reflected the thaw era's emphasis on the positive points of socialism, while Leonid Kheifets' King Lear at the Moscow Maly (1979), after a long era of stagnation, read Lear's whole society as complacent and …
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Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River
… The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and King Lear. I examine the significance of parallel reading habits of Wolfe the author and Gant the character. I also scrutinize the plurality of Gant's methods of cognition as a reader who interprets texts, communicates his connections with texts, …
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Suzuki Tadashi's Intercultural Adaptations
… to analyzing the three case studies: Suzuki’s King Lear, The Trojan Women, and Cyrano de Bergerac takes a more globalized view of theatrical adaptations that acknowledges the visual turn of contemporary theatre and contributes to the fields of intercultural performance studies and adaptation …
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Making offense A Skill: The Vice, the Machiavel, and the Problem of Legitimacy In Shakespearean Histories
… inescapable. The challenge and assassination of King John, juxtaposed with the character of the Bastard, presents an ambiguous midpoint between the restoration of order in the first tetralogy and its collapse in the second. In conjunction with the problem of legitimacy is the development of the …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… representative productions. Chapter Two, ""The King's Many Bodies,"" looks at Fiona Shaw's 1995--96 performance as Richard II. Her interpretation expanded Ernst Kantorowicz's interpretation of the play as the tragedy of ""the king's two bodies,"" and revealed the king's many bodies through her …
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Politeness in Shakespeare
… use of Early Modern English in Hamiet, King Lear, Maebeth, and Otheilo. The comedies are used because. (i) dramatic texts provide the best information on colloquial speech of the period; (2) the psychological soliloquies in the tragedies provide the access to inner life that is necessary …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
… Shakespearean mature tragedies - Hamlet and King Lear - as well as with Marlowe's Dr Faustus. It takes as its focal point the viability - or otherwise - of the 'interiorised contexts' which such plays construct. This Section contends that these (relative) microcosmic interiors are, in fact, …
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