Augustines Confessions and Shakespeares King Lear by Kim Pa... - 9781350500884

Augustines Confessions and Shakespeares King LearPower, Parenthood, and Presence\nAuthor(s): Kim Paffenroth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350500884, 978-1350500884\nSynopsis\nPaffenroth 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 Shakespeares version of his tragic end. \n\nHaving 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 .