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'King Lear' in Context: The Cultural Background
'King Lear' in Context: The Cultural Background
'King Lear' in Context: The Cultural Background
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'King Lear' in Context: The Cultural Background

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How did the court audience of 1606 respond to Shakespeare’s most disturbing tragedy? This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences a contemporary audience would have brought to interpreting ‘King Lear’. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct? Historical, literary, political and sociological backgrounds are explained within the biblical-moral matrices by which the play would have been judged. This book links real life in the 1600s to Lear’s world on the stage. Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, parenting and family dynamics, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, the concept of tragedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play an unsettling picture of a disintegrating world in free fall.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAnthem Press
Release dateFeb 15, 2015
ISBN9781783083749
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