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Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear

By Kim Paffenroth

Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear

By Kim Paffenroth

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Paffenroth returns to two of the most quintessentially commanding yet vulnerable protagonists in the Western canon - Augustine, the real life, fifth century bishop of Hippo, known to us mostly through his own telling of his life in Confessions; and King Lear, the legendary king of Briton, known to us mostly from Shakespeare's version of his tragic end.
Having examined problems addressed in both works of love, language, nature, and reason, Paffenroth here picks up more purely relational matters: both protagonists wield (or have wielded) power over others, yet struggle to learn its right application; both raise children, but have deeply problematic relations with their children, their partners, and (in the case of Augustine at least) their parents; neither has an intuitive or unproblematic relationship with a fully present God or gods - Augustine struggles mightily to have such, while Lear cries out to heaven but it is unclear he ever gets a reply. As different as the books and men are, how they relate to women and God shows illuminating and complementary points of comparison.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
134
Release Date:
2025-12-11
Publication Date:
2025-12-11
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350500887
ISBN13:
9781350500884
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
309 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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