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Office and duty in King LearShakespeare's political theologies /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Office and duty in King Learby Alexander Thom.
Reminder of title:	Shakespeare's political theologies /
Author:	Thom, Alexander.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024.
Description:	x, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Duty in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40157-2
ISBN:	9783031401572$q(electronic bk.)

Office and duty in King LearShakespeare's political theologies /
Thom, Alexander.

Office and duty in King LearShakespeare's political theologies /[electronic resource] :by Alexander Thom. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024. - x, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave Shakespeare studies,2731-3212. - Palgrave Shakespeare studies..

1 Introduction -- 2 The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power -- 3 "The Bloody Proclamation to Escape": Edgar and Romantic Outlawry -- 4 Dividing Between Daughters -- 5 Lear's Redemption -- 6 Conclusion: Lear's Shadow, Office Today -- Index.

This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear's encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben's models. Goneril's treason shows the sovereign's consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear's crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book's conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear's persistent association with the Holocaust. Dr Alexander Thom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His postdoctoral research focuses on the displaced in English Renaissance drama. This book is based on his Midlands3Cities AHRC doctorate, which was awarded in 2020 by the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

ISBN: 9783031401572$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-40157-2doiSubjects--Personal Names:

177494
Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616.Subjects--Topical Terms:

972492
Duty in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR2819

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33

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