Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the Recovery of Classical Natural RightUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 317 pages 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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... custom , the uncovering of nature , and the effect of this uncovering on the ruling opinion of the Renaissance West . 1 The uncovering of nature in the Renaissance is a return to philosophy , or a return to the attempt to understand ...
... custom , the uncovering of nature , and the effect of this uncovering on the ruling opinion of the Renaissance West . 1 The uncovering of nature in the Renaissance is a return to philosophy , or a return to the attempt to understand ...
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... custom and the discovery of nature , not as it occurred in ancient Greece , nor , literally , as it occurs in the ancient Britain of Shakespeare's Lear , but as it occurred in the Renaissance . As Robert Heilman writes , in his ...
... custom and the discovery of nature , not as it occurred in ancient Greece , nor , literally , as it occurs in the ancient Britain of Shakespeare's Lear , but as it occurred in the Renaissance . As Robert Heilman writes , in his ...
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... custom dissolves and nature is re - discovered . Through the storm , the presumption of the ceremonial monarchy is dissolved , turned to compassion for the naked wretches who are exposed to the harshness of the elements as Lear has been ...
... custom dissolves and nature is re - discovered . Through the storm , the presumption of the ceremonial monarchy is dissolved , turned to compassion for the naked wretches who are exposed to the harshness of the elements as Lear has been ...
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... custom , which is of human making.13 This effect occurs because " right originally presents itself as inseparable from law or custom , " and in the discovery of nature , custom " comes to sight as that which hides nature . " 14 There is ...
... custom , which is of human making.13 This effect occurs because " right originally presents itself as inseparable from law or custom , " and in the discovery of nature , custom " comes to sight as that which hides nature . " 14 There is ...
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... custom , what appears to humans in the cave is the earth , or the nature of the body . There is more to the curing of this tragic view than a forgetfulness of individuals in the quest for universals . Botany or physics , geometry or ...
... custom , what appears to humans in the cave is the earth , or the nature of the body . There is more to the curing of this tragic view than a forgetfulness of individuals in the quest for universals . Botany or physics , geometry or ...
Contents
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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