A Jesuit Allusion to King Lear

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank W. Brownlow
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Life And Death

In 1614 Charles Boscard published at St Omer The Life and Death of Mr. Edmund Geninges Priest, Crowned with Martyrdome at London, the 10. day of November, in the yeare M.D.XCI, a book which John Hungerford Pollen called ‘the most sumptuous, artistic, and, typographically speaking, the most interesting literary monument to our martyrs which our poor persecuted church was ever able to set forth’. This beautiful little book's most striking feature is a set of twelve handsome engravings by Martin Bas of Douay, one before each chapter illustrating an episode in the martyr's life. It also harbours an important allusion to King Lear, and hence to William Shakespeare.

scholarly journals El teatro como ejercicio terapéutico en Todos somos el rey Lear, de Guillermo Schmidhuber

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Lourdes Betanzos
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Drama Therapy ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Therapeutic Exercise ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Psychological Concepts

En Todos somos el rey Lear, escrita en 1979 y publicada en 1982, el dramaturgo mexicano Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora plantea clara intertextualidad con William Shakespeare. El presente estudio es una exploración de cómo Schmidhuber teatraliza la creación de hiperrealidad como proceso terapéutico no sólo para ciertos personajes de la obra, sino también para el público e, incluso, para el dramaturgo mismo. Con esta finalidad se emplean los conceptos de Jean Baudrillard sobre la hiperrealidad y el simulacro, las afirmaciones del mismo Schmidhuber sobre la dramaturgia, así como también los conceptos psicológicos de Phil Jones sobre la drama-terapia y los efectos transformativos de este ejercicio teatral. Por medio de este proceso que resulta terapéutico, los personajes Millonario verdadero y Álvaro intentan enmendar los conflictos vitales que inquietan a ambos, a la par que el autor mismo negocia su identidad como dramaturgo.Theather as therapeutic exercise in We are all King Lear from Guillermo SchmidhuberAbstractIn We are all King Lear, written in 1979 and published in 1982, the Mexican playwright Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora clearly lays out an intertextuality exercise in front of William Shakespeare’s work. This study is an exploration of how Schmidhuber dramatizes the creation of hyperreality as a therapeutic process not only for certain characters of the play, but also for the audience and even for the playwright himself. To carry out this exploration, the paper applies Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreality and simulation, as well as some affirmations from Schmidhuber himself about dramaturgy, and some of Phil Jones’ psychological concepts regarding drama therapy and its transformative effects as a theatrical exercise. Through this therapeutic process, the characters Real Millionaire and Álvaro attempt to rectify the vital conflicts that unsettle them both, while the author himself negotiates his identity as a playwright.Recibido: 05 de octubre de 2020Aceptado: 01 de febrero de 2021

M. William Shak-speare, his true Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters.

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
David Bevington ◽  
Graham Holderness ◽  
Laurie E. Osborne ◽  
John Turner ◽  
Cedric Watts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Life And Death

Last Acts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Vinter
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Ben Jonson ◽  
Christopher Marlowe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Art Of Dying

Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grieving than as an action to be performed, well or badly. Active deaths belie the narratives of helplessness and loss most often used to analyze representations of mortality and instead suggest ways that marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some of these strategies for dying resonate with ecclesiastical forms or with descriptions of biopolitics within the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by writers including Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson alongside both devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.

scholarly journals A influência de Shakespeare em Grande sertão: veredas – as Três Mulheres e os Três Metais / Shakespeare’s Influence in Grande sertão: veredas – The Three Women and the Three Metals

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Daniel Cavalcanti Atroch
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
King Lear ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
True Love ◽  
Joao Guimaraes Rosa ◽  
The Right

Resumo: Este artigo aborda como é atualizado, no Grande sertão: veredas, um motivo fundamental para a tragédia Rei Lear: a escolha amorosa envolvendo três mulheres relacionadas ao ouro, à prata e ao chumbo. A simbologia subjacente aos metais é determinante para a caracterização das personagens femininas tanto do romance quanto da tragédia, analisadas, aqui, em perspectiva comparativa. Em Rei Lear, os metais preciosos, o ouro e a prata, estão associados a Goneril e Reagan, as filhas más que herdam o reino, enquanto Cordélia, a filha bondosa e preferida do rei, é representada pelo chumbo e acaba deserdada. Em Grande sertão: veredas, o ouro e a prata figuram na caracterização de Nhorinhá, a prostituta por quem Riobaldo se apaixona, e Otacília, sua esposa, enquanto Diadorim, o verdadeiro amor, está relacionado ao chumbo e permanece sublimado. Assim, os metais preciosos simbolizam, em ambas as obras, o equívoco amoroso, enquanto o chumbo guarda a mulher certa – Cordélia na tragédia, e Diadorim no romance. Diadorim e Cordélia possuem, ainda, outras analogias: ambas são filhas de grandes líderes, dedicam fidelidade irrestrita ao pai, possuem ligação com o arquétipo da donzela-guerreira e suas mortes representam momentos de anagnórisis para Riobaldo e Lear.Palavras-chave: literatura comparada; Grande sertão: veredas; João Guimarães Rosa; Rei Lear; William Shakespeare.Abstract: This article discusses how it is updated, in Grande sertão: veredas, a fundamental theme for the tragedy King Lear: the love choice involving three women related to gold, silver and lead. The symbology related to the metals is decisive for the characterization of the female characters of both the novel and the tragedy, analyzed here, in a comparative perspective. In King Lear, the precious metals, gold and silver, are associated with Goneril and Reagan, the evil daughters who inherit the kingdom, while Cordelia, Lear’s kind and preferred daughter, is represented by lead and ends up disinherited. In Grande sertão: veredas, gold and silver emerge in the characterization of Nhorinhá, the prostitute with whom Riobaldo falls in love, and Otacília, his wife, while Diadorim, the true love, is related to lead, and remains sublimated. Thus, the precious metals, in both works, symbolize the loving mistake, while the lead keeps the right woman – Cordelia, in the tragedy, and Diadorim in the novel. Diadorim and Cordélia also have other analogies: both are daughters of great leaders, dedicate unrestricted fidelity to their father, have a connection with the warrior-maiden archetype, and their deaths represent moments of anagnorisis for Riobaldo and Lear.Keywords: comparative literature; Grande sertão: veredas; João Guimarães Rosa; King Lear; William Shakespeare.

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