Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Thomas Stein
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 313
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 31
Anmeldegruppe: Seminar: British Literature I
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: Shakespeare's King Lear, written in 1604/05, is one of the dramatist's 'great' tragedies. It explores the dark consequences of the old King's decision to divide his kingdom in an act of exercising his imperious will. Thus, Shakespeare's play invokes the royal and paternal souvereignty only to chronicle its destruction in scenes of astonishing cruelty and power. King Lear relentlessly stages a horrifying descent toward what the ruined King, contemplating the naked body of a mad beggar, calls "the thing itself". In addition to staging Lear's loss of identity and madness, the play uses the most brilliant and complex double plot which intertwines the story of Lear and his three daughters with the story of Gloucester and his two sons. We will, in a scene-to-scene analysis, investigate Shakespeare's poetics of despair that is set in motion when Lear disinherits Cordelia and when Gloucester credits Edmund's lies about Edgar.
Empfohlene Literatur: Text: "The New Cambridge Shakespeare" or the "Arden Edition"
