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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 149
T2  - Shakespeare Jahrbuch
SP  - 159-75
ID  - bbbc406
T1  - "Welt ohne Gott: König Lear und sein Glaube"
AU  - Kermani, Navid
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - Lear
KW  - Gloucester
KW  - suffering
KW  - martyr
KW  - death
LA  - German
AB  - Discusses King Lear's and Gloucester's suffering, which "evokes early modern pictorial representations of martyrs and the crucified Christ," and argues that the two are not martyrs, but that "their agony and death should be seen as a consequence of their own decisions." Contends that because King Lear's and Gloucester's pain so markedly resembles that of Christ, "the difference which Shakespeare's King Lear marks in the history of thought appears all the more clearly: the tragedy presents 'a world without God.'" English summary, 175. Also published in Akzente 59, no. 4 (2012). Republished in Zwischen Koran und Kafka (q.v.).
ER  -