"Shakespeare's Linguistic Turn in King Lear"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm184/
Author:
	McKenna, Andrew J.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2019
Publication Information:
	Anthropoetics 25, no. 1 (2019). (http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2501/2501mckenna/)
Annotation:
	Draws from Richard van Oort's analysis of "Christian anthropology" of Shakespeare's ethics and aesthetics in five Shakespearean tragedies (excluding King Lear) to offer new reading of King Lear which weaves together insights from Harold Bloom, Rene Girard, and Eric Gans. Of Lear's final speech, argues that "Blessing and forgiveness, and prayer and song, are the deritualized speech acts of Lear’s jubilation, a vision of this-worldly transcendence as immunity to the contagion of rivalries governing society."
Language:
	English
Tags:
	King Lear, Language, Linguistics, Philology, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm184