"And that’s true too" : New Essays on King Lear
ISBN: 9781443815871
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

This collection of provocative new essays, mainly by French scholars, on Shakespeare's great tragedy, focuses on linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical issues Other specific attention paid to the dimension of early modern desire, sexuality and gender relations. King Lear is here re-examined in the perspective of Lucrece, Montaigne, Renaissance medicine and anatomy, the grotesque, myth and imagery as well as negative theology. It is hoped that this will serve to update our approaches to this ..."


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