Shakespeare’s Art of Poesy in King Lear. An emblematic mirror of governance on the Jacobean stage
William Shakespeare’s King Lear has long received considerable attention for textual, philological and theatrical reasons. This monograph combines academic research and the close reading of the 1608 Quarto to find answers to the question what makes this play an outstanding and exceptional work of ar...
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| description | William Shakespeare’s King Lear has long received considerable attention for textual, philological and theatrical reasons. This monograph combines academic research and the close reading of the 1608 Quarto to find answers to the question what makes this play an outstanding and exceptional work of art. Written to be performed to a courtly audience, the text bears traces of the dramaturgical heritage of Tudor interludes as well as the tropes of early Jacobean public discourses. Relying on George Puttenham’s contemporaneous handbook of rhetorical and poetic conventions, the monograph argues that the corporeal image cluster of the text corresponds to the rhetoric of royal discourses based on the tropes of the body politic. Thus the 1608 King Lear Quarto stands as a dramatic response to royal propaganda and holds a mirror of governance to both the royal court and to King James, who supposedly was present at the first performance of the play in Whitehall. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1762622026-05-05T06:10:30Z Shakespeare’s Art of Poesy in King Lear. An emblematic mirror of governance on the Jacobean stage Mudriczki, Judit Shakespeare King Lear Mirror of governance Irodalomtörténet History of literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general William Shakespeare’s King Lear has long received considerable attention for textual, philological and theatrical reasons. This monograph combines academic research and the close reading of the 1608 Quarto to find answers to the question what makes this play an outstanding and exceptional work of art. Written to be performed to a courtly audience, the text bears traces of the dramaturgical heritage of Tudor interludes as well as the tropes of early Jacobean public discourses. Relying on George Puttenham’s contemporaneous handbook of rhetorical and poetic conventions, the monograph argues that the corporeal image cluster of the text corresponds to the rhetoric of royal discourses based on the tropes of the body politic. Thus the 1608 King Lear Quarto stands as a dramatic response to royal propaganda and holds a mirror of governance to both the royal court and to King James, who supposedly was present at the first performance of the play in Whitehall. 2026-05-05T06:10:29Z 2026-05-05T06:10:29Z 2026-05-04T08:56:30Z 2020 book ONIX_20260429T161218_9789636463724_21 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112882 9789636463724 9782343208084 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176262 eng Károli könyvek. Monográfia open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112882/1/9789636463724.pdf L'Harmattan Open Access L'Harmattan Open Access 10.56037/978-2-343-20808-4 10.56037/978-2-343-20808-4 abf06205-2c56-450a-94af-d4ef278eb8e4 9789636463724 9782343208084 L'Harmattan Open Access Budapest; Paris open access |
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