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Shakespeare's Mad Men - A Crisis of Authority (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Mad Men - A Crisis of Authority (Hardcover)
Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
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This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and
iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of
Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the
scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as
symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking King Lear and
Measure for Measure as case studies, van Oort shows how the minimal
concept of an anthropological scene of origin-the "originary
hypothesis"-provides the basis for a new understanding of every
aspect of the plays, from the psychology of the characters to the
ethical and dialogical conflicts upon which the drama is based. The
result is a gripping commentary on the plays. Why does Lear
abdicate and go mad? Why does Edgar torture his father with
non-recognition? Why does Lucio accuse the Duke in Measure for
Measure of madness and lechery, and why does Isabella remain silent
at the end? In approaching these and other questions from the
perspective of the originary hypothesis, van Oort helps us to see
the ethical predicament of the plays, and, in the process, makes
Shakespeare new again.
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