03314nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001600167072002300183072001500206100007800221245011800299250001800417264008500435300003200520336002600552337002600578338003600604347002400640490004500664505027600709520143500985650004902420650001102469650003902480650004502519650001102564650002202575710003402597773002602631776003602657776003602693776003602729830004502765856004602810978-3-031-40157-2DE-He21320251030110837.0cr nn 008mamaa231123s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314015727 a10.1007/978-3-031-40157-22doi 4aPN715-749 7aDSB2bicssc 7aLIT0240002bisacsh 7aDSB2thema1 aThom, Alexander.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aOffice and Duty in King Learh[electronic resource] :bShakespeare’s Political Theologies /cby Alexander Thom.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aX, 261 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Shakespeare Studies,x2731-32120 a1 Introduction -- 2 The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power -- 3 “The Bloody Proclamation to Escape”: Edgar and Romantic Outlawry -- 4 Dividing Between Daughters -- 5 Lear’s Redemption -- 6 Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today -- Index.  aThis book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear’s encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben’s models. Goneril’s treason shows the sovereign’s consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear’s crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book’s conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear’s persistent association with the Holocaust. Dr Alexander Thom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His postdoctoral research focuses on the displaced in English Renaissance drama. This book is based on his Midlands3Cities AHRC doctorate, which was awarded in 2020 by the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. 0aEuropean literaturexRenaissance, 1450-1600. 0aDrama. 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticism.14aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature.24aDrama.24aLiterary History.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303140156508iPrinted edition:z978303140158908iPrinted edition:z9783031401596 0aPalgrave Shakespeare Studies,x2731-321240uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40157-2