| Description |
xi, 383 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-365) and index. |
| Contents |
Comely apparel and the naked truth: metaphor and common Christian culture -- Nakedness and clothing in controversy about the eucharist: anxiety about representation? -- Constraints and freedom: extensionist semantics and its implications for criticism -- The perils of taking sides: literary interpretation of the naked and the clothed -- The plain heart according to her bond: sociopolitical readings and family relationships -- I'll teach you differences: hierarchy, pomp, service, authority -- So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough: Anabaptist egalitarianism, Anglican charity, both, neither? -- Robes and furr'd gowns hide all: mock trials and assaults on justice -- Conclusion: political interpretation versus dramatic verisimilitude and shared moral values. |
| Summary |
"Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld questions the critical assumptions of much of today's most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation that provides essential historical and linguistic contexts for the key terms and concepts of the play. Opening the play up to the implications of these contexts and this interpretive theory, she reveals much about Lear, English Reformation religious culture, and the state of contemporary criticism." "Kronenfeld's focus expands from the text of Shakespeare's play to a discussion of a shared Christian culture - a shared language and set of values - a common discursive field that frames the social ethics of the play. That expanded focus is used to address the multiple ways that clothing and nakedness function in the play, as well as the ways that these particular images and terms are understood in that shared context."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Semantics.
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Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature.
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History.
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Literature and history -- England -- History.
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Language and culture -- England -- History.
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Dissenters, Religious, in literature.
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Social ethics in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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Nudity in literature.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear and the naked truth. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605554557 |
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Online version: Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear and the naked truth. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607864335 |
| ISBN |
082232038X paperback alkaline paper |
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9780822320388 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822320274 alkaline paper |
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9780822320272 alkaline paper |
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