“And Thou, all-Shaking Thunder…”A Theological Notation to Lines 1–38 of King Lear, Act III, Scene II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18094832 |
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| Authors | William C Hackett (0000-0002-9101-6248, Belmont University, corresponding author), William Hackett |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 91 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel8050091 |
| OpenAlex | W2612612317 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In the dramas of Shakespeare, the madman and the fool speak in prose; wisdom and sanity are properly poeticised. King Lear is no exception: I go some way in providing a theological notation to a crucial moment of Lear’s descent into madness, the fracturing of his blank verse into prose. Is the storm on the heath a representation of the turmoil of his mind? Or is it a theophany, the manifestation of divine displeasure at human foolishness? Finding between the verse and the prose the theological tradition of Christianity will allow us to negotiate this question and to understand a little more clearly the peculiar wisdom of poetry for Christianity
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| Highly cited | No |
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