The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/aaao763/
Author:
	Roraback, Erik S.
Type:
	Book Monograph
Year:
	2017
Publication Information:
	Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. xvi + 295
Series Statement:
	(Literary Modernism, 2.)
Annotation:
	Considers Andrew McCullough's 1953 televised King Lear, starring Orson Welles, as an example of "high baroque" that encourages us to question "reification and the spectacle society." Suggests that this Lear communicates, "in spite of it all," "a certain kind of invigoration."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Welles, Orson; McCullough, Andrew
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	aaao763