Office and Duty in King Lear - 9783031401596

Office and Duty in King LearShakespeares Political Theologies\nAuthor(s): Alexander Thom\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031401596, 978-3031401596\nSynopsis\nThis book advances five original readings of Shakespeare'sKing Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To graspLearsencounter 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 [url] shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts likepetit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agambens models. Gonerils treason shows the sovereigns consort and children are consecrated lives t.