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Shakespeare's King Lear with the tempest : the discovery of nature and the recovery of classical natural right

"Although he is considered to be the world's greatest dramatist, Shakespeare seems to have escaped the detection of thinkers on politics and the philosophic tradition of thought on man. 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 2003
pages cm
9780761824664, 0761824669
223357830
Introduction : the discovery of nature and King Lear
Ch. 1. On ancient ceremonial monarchy and the opening scene of Lear
Ch. 2. The subplot family of Gloucester
Ch. 3. The fool and the Earl of Kent
Ch. 4. On act III of King Lear
Ch. 5. On act IV
Ch. 6. On the final act
App. A. The word nature in King Lear
App. B. On the question of the presence of the Duke of Burgundy in King Lear
App. C. On the tripartite division of the kingdom in King Lear
App. D. The word fortune in King Lear
App. E. Geoffrey of Monmouth and King Lear
App. F. The origin of the Arthurian legend and Gildas, the most ancient British writer