"Welt ohne Gott: König Lear und sein Glaube"
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Author:
	Kermani, Navid.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Jahrbuch 149 (2013): 159–75.
Annotation:
	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.).
Language:
	German
Cross-References:
	Kermani, Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen [Between the Koran and Kafka: West-Eastern Explorations.]
Persons:
	Christ
Keywords:
	Lear; Gloucester; suffering; martyr; death
Tags:
	King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc406